rice farmers

Wetland crop growers

Rice farmers are people who cultivate rice as their primary agricultural activity.

The term appears in discussions of food security, agricultural policy, and rural economies, particularly in Asia where rice is a staple crop: Rice farmers in the region have adopted new irrigation techniques.

The compound emphasizes rice specifically, distinguishing them from farmers of other crops.

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seedlings · transplanting · flooded · wet season · terraces · grain · mud · water buffalo · planting · fields · planting season · Asia · straw · threshing · wetland · knee deep · cultivation · subsistence

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crop type

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Cultivators of cereal grains

corn farmers · potato farmers · cotton farmers

agricultural role

rice farmersfood processors

Motorized kitchen cutting machines

land use

rice farmerscattle ranchers

Those who raise bovines

pastoralists · nomadic herders · dairy farmers · fishermen · hunters

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