rice paddy

Wet grain farm

A rice paddy is a flooded field where rice is cultivated.

The water controls weeds and pests while the rice plants grow.

Paddies are terraced into hillsides across much of Asia, creating distinctive stepped landscapes.

Workers bent over in the rice paddies.

The word paddy alone can mean the same thing, or unhusked rice.

Related

monsoon · seedlings · terracing · wetland · harvesting · flooded · egrets · threshing · field · transplanting · planting season · dikes · levees · cultivation · plantation · straw hat · rural landscape · submerged

Categories
Opposites
water requirements in agriculture

rice paddydry farming

Cultivation without artificial watering

desert · arid land · dryland · upland · wheat field

terrain and landscape type

rice paddydesert

To leave behind completely

dryland · steppe · savanna · sand dunes · scrubland

water cultivation method

rice paddydryland farming

Cultivation without irrigation systems

dry farming · xeriscaping

Family

rice, rife, riced, paddy, ricing, paddies, ricer, ricers, unpadded

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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G