Cold-resistant banana farm promotes disabled's social integration

In a farm employing a sophisticated technique to develop cold-resistant bananas in Okayama Prefecture, western Japan, disabled people play a major role in the routine work of watering, fertilizing and removing yellowing leaves from the plants.Every morning, several mentally disabled workers come to the banana farm of Chieko Saito, 54, in the city of Okayama, a 30-minute car ride from the welfare facility where they live. In the harvest season in the fall, more people from the facility pick the fruit there.The workers cannot communicate well with others, but one of them said they found weedi…READ FULL ARTICLE