{"id":220,"date":"2013-07-26T17:25:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T08:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/2013\/07\/26\/post_13\/"},"modified":"2014-03-22T00:42:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T15:42:02","slug":"post_13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/2013\/07\/26\/post_13\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting distinctive urban farms in Kyoto (July 25, 2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Students of the Graduate School of Agriculture visited farms in Kamigamo, Kyoto city, as a part of the \u201cSustainable Agriculture\u201d lecture series.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Firstly, they visited Morita farm and were given a lecture on the history of <i>Kyo-yasai <\/i>(special traditional vegetables of Kyoto) and the latest cultivation systems to sustain this tradition. They were also allowed to step into a greenhouse, where high quality <i>Kamonasu<\/i> (eggplant) are being cultivated. Students were deeply impressed and moved by Mr. Morita\u2019s continuous innovations to produce safe and tasty vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Next, they visited Kishimoto farm and were introduced to a hydroponic tomato production system that uses an elevated rock wool bed and fertigation. They leant about this advanced culture system, which monitors environmental factors, such as temperature and solar radiation, as well as how much and how often the crops are feed liquid fertilizer. This generated lots of questions from the students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table class=\"noborder\" style=\"width: 200px;\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Century','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;\"><span>Students carefully listening to lecture <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div><em>Kamonasu<\/em> (eggplant) in greenhouse<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"1.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/images\/1.JPG\" width=\"306\" height=\"231\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"2.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/images\/2.JPG\" width=\"306\" height=\"231\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>Lecture about tomato hydroponics<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div>Tomatoes to be harvested<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"3.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/images\/3.JPG\" width=\"306\" height=\"231\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"4.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/images\/4.JPG\" width=\"306\" height=\"231\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Students of the Graduate School of Agriculture visited farms in Kamigamo, Kyoto city, as a part of the \u201cS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}