 Right here ready to plant and we've got a beautiful machine here that we're hopefully going to figure out how to use now first thing I guess it's the question why are we going to use the machine transplanting we could also do manual planting so why are we doing this Lee? Well we're trying to act in as a contemporary way as possible and I think labor supplies in Asia are declining everywhere as the whole continent develops and systems to use less labor evolving as we speak and one way of using less labor is still the transplant because there's benefits in transplanting but to do it mechanically this this sort of machine was invented in Japan how long ago probably 20 or 30 years ago at least yeah and it's been these kind of things have been in use in Japan Korea and maybe China but what we are seeing in recent years is that it's now moving on to into other countries in India South East Asia and it's mainly because of labor shortage and it's actually a business opportunity not just for the company selling the machines but also for small farmers who then become small entrepreneurs so providing this as a service as a planting service to other farmers and even for seedling growers you know because you need to have seedlings grown in a in a precise manner you can see this here if you can zoom in I don't know if you guys can do this yeah so you need these nice seedling mats here though we can see how uniform the seedlings are and it's of course it requires a special way of growing them so that you can pull them off in these mats and cut them into nice strips which you can then feed into this machine and this is actually a new business yeah even for women we see this in some places in southern India I've seen it so women becoming seedling growers selling the seedlings then to a machine operator or service provider so what we are basically trying to do this year here is a labor saving cost-efficient precise crop establishment technology that is as close as it gets and maybe even better than manual transplanting wait a minute last year we were talking about exactly the same things and off we went up to just over our knees in my broadcasting so what's changed why why why the sudden change of hearts well because I think we will get a more precise crop establishment with this as a safer technology the starters under our conditions here with that kind of heavy and soft soil and we may still try something else next time try direct yeah we're nearly finished and by and large I would say it works but it is actually quite hard work to walk even behind this machine because anytime you hit a deep muddy spot you have to make sure that the wheels don't spin off and we've had a number of patches there we're standing water where basically it's so muddy that the seedlings that because they're so small disappear so but here is a place where it looks quite okay so you can see pretty good spacing and ceilings that hopefully will recover and grow quickly but it has taken us a while and the machine is the engine died a couple of times on the way the planting mechanism got stuck once in a while so it requires some skill I would say of course a trained operator a professional would have done this much faster and probably better than we did but well we got it planted now let's see how it goes