Shows part from a documentary titled "Korean Farming - An Oriental Epic' presented by the Harmon Foundation. Depicts Korean rice farming and a Korean peasant's life. Opening of the reel shows a huge statue of Lord Buddha. Shows a Korean rice farmer Kim,his wife washing clothes at river bed,his young son and their Asiatic bull Abdul. A high altitude view of Kim's village and scattered paddy farms. Korean farmers adopt intensive methods of farming like Contour-Mapping. Individual holdings are small.
Korean farmers operate a 5-men shovel to repair their rice field. In the month of March farmers usually repair their rice fields afflicted by winter rains and snow.
Shows Korean farmers cutting dry land to the water level in a rice paddy field. Farmers work in pairs and pull a leveler-device with ropes to cut the land.
Shows scenes of denuded hills that are eroded by summer storms. The eroded sand buries the paddy farms. Korean farmers remove sand from the buried rice fields by using shovels, Ox-driven harrows and other tools.
Korean farmer scatters rice-seeds in a flooded paddy field.Seed beds are prepared in the month of may and flooded and sown by the farmers.
Korean farmer Ox-harrows his rice fields.Fields are roughly leveled for plantation of rice seedlings.A Farmer levels the soil with his bare feet.
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