This Year`s First Rice Reaping

A farmer is holding a bunch of rice plants cut with a pleasing look in a plastic greenhouse, in Icheon City, Gyeonggi province on Tuesday. He transplanted precocious rice species in the greenhouse spanning 990 sq. meters on January 24. The expected yield of rice is 350 kilograms. Hobeop Nonghyup workers are helping him reap rice.

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