Rice farming started from March, harvest around late summer.
In Japan, Traditionally, Irrigated field. many older people told me that when they are young, house water run into house after irrigated field. It means, water is precious, rice field water is even more important. As you can imagine, if rice not grown well, life will become starvation.
Many of farmers gave up from irrigated rice field work, because of labor against cost performance. Mr Morita told me when he was young, all day he worked got 5kg of rice. This was enough for labor. today, he said it require 20kg. Since it is over capacity to grow 20kg per day, So, it's nonsense to keep tradition as farmer today. Mr Morita smiled to me tells me that he is not smart. although, I thought, sense of living might change, but quality of life will never change.
His hands, body, mind and spirit are down to ground and as well as highly connected to universe.
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| Mr Morita said drying on sun is best way for rice. lots of work, but he said it's worth it. |
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| This year was hot summer, usually hot summer is good for rice farming. |
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| Dedicated farmer. great color rice. |
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| Look how beautiful this rice is. |
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| Irrigated rice field already dried up when harvest time. Lady told me dragon fly eat insects for good. |
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| This is about 500kg of rice here...lots of lots of work into this. |
I would love to keep post new story from Mr Morita. Farmer is where our future would be. Lots of love into foods.
Thank you for reading.
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