Life Of A Rice Farmer: Growing Rice In Rural Japan | On The Red Dot | Full Episode

He started out wanting to be a better documentary producer. After four years in a university in Japan, Lee Xian Jie did not want to go home. Instead he stayed on to open a travel business. This seems an unlikely start to farm life. Yet today he grows rice and harvests tea in Ryujinmura, two hours from Osaka. In a village of fewer than 3,000 people, Xian Jie lives amongst septuagenarians who have loaned him their land for free to farm.

With the help of goats, chicken and wisdom from the ages, he is labouring to grow rice the old-fashioned way – sans pesticides, herbicides and machinery. But can the 33-year-old earn enough? Is this a sustainable way to live in every sense of the word?

0:00 Introduction
01:15 Arrival at farm in Ryujinmura
05:31 Farming rice in rural Japan
11:49 When water runs dry at rice farm
14:28 Chicken, goats and tea at rice farm
20:33 Ming cooks for Xian Jie

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