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Rice Photo Gallery III Kazuko Tomiyama's 'Rice in Japan' Calendar (2002)
Double cropping
(Aki City, Kochi Prefecture)
This is a rare scene of double cropping, growing rice in the same fields
twice in one year. During the mid 1950s, when rice was in short supply, here in
the Kochi Plain they improved a variety, eventually developing a double-cropping
strain. After planting in April, it is harvested in August. The fields are planted
again in August, then, in November a second crop is brought in. Rice is cut in
one field while being planted in the next, something rarely seen in Japan.
At one time the sight had spread to 4,000 hectares. Now, with so many production
restrictions, the practice has all but died out. In the whole prefecture, just a single hectare is still double cropped. A few
paddy fields are holding out. This photo was taken in 1985. | |
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