I had an opportunity to spend time out of town in Japan. On the roads when we travelled, noticing that there was no old car at all. Why they used new cars, asking the group leader, knowing that the government increased taxes every years as the cars getting old. Therefore, changing new cars made the taxes cheaper or it was more feasible. The old cars were tore down in parts and the garages exported the parts to the other countries. The cars' size mostly were small to medium according to the small roads in the villages. There were no pick up car like ones in Thailand but there were some small trucks. On the roads, there were the parking areas in every certain distances. The parking areas comprised of modern toilets, elegant restuarants and souvenir or convenient stores etc. There might be a rule that the drivers must rest after driving in a certain period of time.
The low incomes were hard to own car becuase of the certain rules such as the self parking space, taxes etc. Bicycles riding were also common on the roadsides. The walking paths were big enough for riding. People such as students, housewives, retirers took bicycles to the near target places. They stricted to the driving rules. For example, the bicycles crossed the roads at the traffic lights in one row. Any riding on the paths would be in one row. These roadside scenery therefore looked beautiful for the foreigner like me.
I understood that we sat and slept on the floor in the Japanese houses. The houses were modern, clean and house's figures were Japanese style. There was no rural area because everywhere looked the same for me. For the safety, at the night time, if we opened the door or house window, the security guards or polices would come because the door opening connected with the alarm system. In the morning, I went for a walk in the village, the atmosphere were quiet, beautiful, nice weather, no homeless pets and there were places like parks for a walk or rest. They were the heaven of the residents.
For farming. Japanese were intent on their practices. Rice farming, they used the light reflected ribbons hanging covering the farms for preventing insects, and somewhere, farmers set the man puppets on farms to prevent birds. Even the farm were small, they tried making good quantity and quality yield. All rice farm looked uniform. Farmers also added value by processing and making end products and transported to the supermarket by themselves. There were several rice mill booths in the villages. Cooperatives were so strong there. there were many kind of business which the cooperatives offered including making the Parking Area business on the roadsides, the matchmaker services, etc. Farmers got farm input and machinery from cooperatives, probably in term of credit. But the processing of the raw materials to add value,until getting the end products such as white rice in the bags, farmers may do it by themselves.
Once I went to an orange orchard farm, It was the slope farmland by which the famer made the concrete blocks like the stairs. The walking paths and the roads for machinery were also concretes. The soil under the plants were covered with white plastic sheets. This white sheet was for making sun light intensity reflected to the fruits and made same yellow colour all around the fruits. It was so intensive.
For the dairy, and also livestock farms, they were clean and furnished with the practical technique which farmers thought of by themselves. There were not appropriate practices in the books but by their own experience and idea. Let me show 3 examples, one, they used the rice straws spreading on the 10-20 degree slope floors for manure. When the cows were walking, their feet pushed the rice straw down to the wide dishes at the low end of the pens' floor. The rice straws mixing with the manure the cows excreted could be eliminated by sweeping to the crop lands. Two, they sprayed water on the roof to cool the pens. And three, there were some space areas for animals to walk in term of animal welfare.
There are more thing in detail to talk about. I wonder if anyone is interested in particular items. I would like to finalize that I'd like to look at Japan and have it as a heroic model in my idea. These experience prove that everything can be done by working hard, thinking practically and do it as thought. Everything are invented by man. And we can do it by our brain. It's time we tried. Chavalvut.
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