paddy field
Flooded rice plot
A paddy field is a flooded parcel of land used for growing rice.
The shallow standing water suppresses weeds and pests while the rice plants grow.
Paddy fields are the dominant agricultural landscape across much of Asia: Terraced paddy fields carved into the hillside.
Often shortened to paddy.
- water buffaloAsian domesticated draft bovine
- terraced fieldsTiered agricultural hillside plots
- transplantingMoving living growth elsewhere
- knee deepImmersed to a point
- muddy waterLiquid clouded with soil
irrigation · wet season · monsoon · cultivation · farm · arable land · rice · cash crop · wetland · aquaculture · egrets · sickles · harvest time · threshing · plowing · flood management · water management · shoots
- farmlandfarms, farm, fields, barns, barn
- farming historypeasant farming, crop rotation, enclosures, manorialism, threshing machine
- land covergrassland, woodland, shrubland, scrubland, cropland
- rice farmingrice cultivation, transplanting, rice plants, terraced fields, seedbed
- wetlandsswamp, swamps, marsh, marshes, marshland
- fieldsbiology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering
land use
paddy fielddesert
To leave behind completely
wasteland · wilderness · urban development · concrete jungle · industrial zone
crop type
paddy fieldwheat field
Land planted with cereal
barley field · cornfield · cotton field · vineyard · orchard