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Rice Planting as Agricultural Work Experience for Elementary School Students
As part of their hometown education, Yonegawa Elementary School carried out agricultural work experience in the form of rice planting. The mainly 6th-grade students enjoyed rowdily planting the rice seedlings.
In my elementary school days if there was a lot of farm work to do, I would have to take the day off school, wake up early and help at home. Children were an important source of manpower, so those people who had only a little land would go and help those who had a lot of land to work on.
At our household Shinto shrines, rice seedlings are made as offerings and we pray that this year's harvest may also be bountiful.
[ 2008.05.20 ｜Rice farming report｜PermaLink ]
