The rice (Oryza sativa) planting season started last month. Here in a cooler region of Nagano prefecture, the village of Hara, some farmers are still busy transplanting the rice seedlings from the seed beds to the paddy fields.
Transplanted rice seedlings in a paddy field and the scene of transplanting the rice seedlings by a mechanical transplanter, Hara-village, Nagano, 5/20/2023