Topic: Wakati sisi tunajifundisha kulima wenzetu...

Pimp my rice paddy

19 Jul 2007

Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety. This year's creation -- a pair of grassy reproductions of famous woodblock prints from Hokusai's 36 Views of Mount Fuji -- has begun to appear (above). It will be visible until the rice is harvested in September.

The residents of Inakadate have been drawing pictures with rice since 1993. Here are a few crops from the recent past, found at this site.

2006

2005

2002

While Inakadate is Japan's most famous rice paddy decorating town, a couple of other places in Japan have joined in the fun.

Yonezawa, Yamagata prefecture, 2007

Yonezawa, Yamagata prefecture, 2006

Nishio, Aichi prefecture (2005, 2006)

UPDATE (Oct 1, 2007): Check out photos of the 2007 harvest HERE.

Kwa nini hatuwaleti hawa watufundishe? halafu muda wao wa kulima na kuvuna mpunga ni mdogo sana kwa mwaka, nna uhakika wakija hapa watavuna mara tatu kwa mwaka na mara mia kwa eka zaidi yetu. Jamani, nakwenda Japan kutafuta wanisaidie kulima mpunga bondeni kwangu.

hamna mambo ya kilimo cha kufa na kupona huko, kilimo ni zaidi ya kazi ni art pia inamaanisha high level of mechanization ohhhuu!

watu hawa walikuepo wanalima hapa lower moshi wanavuna mara 3kwa mwaka .tangu walipomaliza mradi kukabidhiwa wazawa .siasa na viongozi ni kama wameuuwa mradi.