Rice Planting

In Japan, May is a season of rice planting.

A photograph of a Japanese farmer, surrounded by rice fields.

At first we plant rice (seed) and make rice seedling. As we use rice planting machines, we will make rice seedlings in a designated container.

This rice planter can plant six rows of seedlings at once, two rows each with three arms.
Japanese rice fields are relatively small, so they are small in size.

In the center in the back is the part that grinds the fertilizer, if you put the fertilizer here.
Fertilizer is also sprinkled with the seedlings.
This fertilizer is capsule type fertilizer and it has been in water for a long time.
The capsule is broken and the fertilizer in it dissolves, and it seems to be the nutrition of the rice.

Rice planting was finished in about 1 hour in this size rice field.