How to grow rice in Japan

Good evening.

Today will talk about how to grow rice. When I was 12, I had grown rice. I didn`t have rice paddy, so I used a bucket instead of it. We can grow rice at our home relatively easy. But we need to know how to grow rice for that.

I will show you how to make rice using rice paddy. There are a lot of works.

the rice planting machine

First, we put the soil to special boxes, and sow grain of rice on spring. Then it put into plastic greenhouses because the rice are eaten by insects and birds when put out it. We wait until shoots. The farmers mix animal dung and fertilizers to the soil.

After a while, the shoots grow about 12cm high. Then, we use the rice planting machine. It is very expensive, so rice farmers use it with everyone. We put the seedlings out of the box, and we planted it in the water-covered rice paddies carefully. It is summer with the wind blows cool. When it isn`t, we did planting use our hands and long times. The seedlings grow steadily because it bathed in sunlight. The farmers frequently adjust the amount of water in the rice field. And they pay the best attention to the typhoon. Typhoon is a storm coming in the summer of Japan.  Also, the farmers check rice frequently about sick or not and breed insects or not.

the harvesting machine

About two thousand flowers bloom in one panicles. It is a flower without petals. It will close in about two hours from blooming. They make a scarecrow for the birds cannot eat rice. The scarecrows covered with straw hats and wear old clothes. And then they put special balloons or tape around the rice paddies.

It will be droop down with the weight when it is become large berry. It is the autumn. Then we harvest the rice using harvesting machine. The rice paddy that glowing is beautiful. Rice is stored after leaving only berry. Then the berry is divided we plant next year or we eat. This is the life of rice. It was much more difficult when didn`t have the machine.

When we plant rice at our house, we use bucket to the role of the rice paddy. It is because we don`t release the water. Water is very important for rice paddy. And we will work well to imitate farmer`s way.  If you grew rice on their own, you would feel more delicious it. My grandpa is the farmer. He is often say that the important thing is the love and effort.

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