Post-WWII - 1948, Occupied Japan, Nutriculture, SPX-67, 8002 Hydroponic Farm

Post-WWII - 1948, Occupied Japan, Nutriculture, SPX-67, 8002 Hydroponic Farm 23Jul48 Japanese women planting seeds in gravel beds. Young tomato plants. Tomato plants dug up & replanted. Cucumbers hanging from vine & on ground. Young women pick cucumbers. 00:50:55 Men work on irrigation ditch, cover with wooden tile, strips of felt or netting put over joints - men shoveling gravel into bed. Water into irrigation channel from hose, leveling gravel in flooded bed. 00:52:00 Field & Americans arrive in jeep, get out and check map against field. 00:53:05 06Apr48 Women harvesting scallions, spring onions from gravel. Women load baskets of vegetables onto truck 00:54:11 Wheelbarrows of gravel dumped into mixer - shoveling gravel 00:55:23 28May48 Women carry baskets of lettuce to conveyor, baskets along conveyor rollers. US man moving basket. 00:56:07 Men replacing gate on sump, workman turning valve. Sacks of chemicals stacked. Removing headgate releasing water into irrigation ditch. 00:57:14 American & Japanese scientist at work in laboratory - plants growing in chemicals in lab. Intensive Agriculture; Farming; Post-WW2; Japanese Occupation; Occupied Japan;