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1938: A man irrigating a rice paddy field using a traditional method

A man irrigating a rice paddy field using a traditional method. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). Japan, circa 1938
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09 Oct 2011 14:58:00
A worker refreshes himself with a fan after loading a container with rice bags at an export plant in the central Chainat province in Thailand, December 16, 2015. Picture taken December 16, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)

A worker refreshes himself with a fan after loading a container with rice bags at an export plant in the central Chainat province in Thailand, December 16, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)
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27 Dec 2015 08:06:00
Longsheng Rice Terraces

The Longsheng Rice Terraces are located in Longsheng County, about 100 km (2 hours drive) from Guilin, Guangxi, China. The most popular are Ping An Rice Terrace and Jinkeng Rice Terrace. The terraced fields are built along the slope winding from the riverside up to the mountain top, the highest part being 880 m in elevation while the lowest part is 380 m[citation needed]. The coiling line that starts from the mountain foot up to the mountain top divides the mountain into layers of water glittering in the sun in spring, layers of green rice shoots in summer, layers of golden rice in fall, and layers of silvery frost in winter. The terraced fields were mostly built during the Ming Dynasty, about 500 years ago.
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18 Oct 2013 12:45:00
A farmer works in a paddy field at Reba Maheswar village, 56 kilometers (35 miles) east of Gauhati, India, Friday, July 3, 2015. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)

A farmer works in a paddy field at Reba Maheswar village, 56 kilometers (35 miles) east of Gauhati, India, Friday, July 3, 2015. Rice is one of the most important food crops of India and about 4,000 different varieties are grown in different parts of the country. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)
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04 Jul 2015 11:24:00
Rice Paddy Art

Tanbo Art is the strategic planting of four varieties of rice which have different colored leaves in order to create a giant image in the rice paddy. This type of aesthetic planting began in the Japanese village of Inakadate in 1993 in order to celebrate the village’s over 2000 year history of rice farming. The practice has spread to other rice cultivating communities in Japan and even other countries such as Thailand and South Korea.
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13 May 2014 12:53:00
A farmer harvests rice on a field in Lalitpur, Nepal, on  October 30, 2014. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

A farmer harvests rice on a field in Lalitpur, Nepal, on October 30, 2014. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)
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30 Oct 2014 13:12:00
Dancers walk on rice fields during the Rice Field Festival in Baginda Village. The Rice Field Festival, organized by the Baginda Village Youth Organization, was held to maintain the local culture and art of Sundanese culture on May 5, 2024. (Photo by Algi Febri Sugita/ZUMA Press Wire/Alamy Live News)

Dancers walk on rice fields during the Rice Field Festival in Baginda Village. The Rice Field Festival, organized by the Baginda Village Youth Organization, was held to maintain the local culture and art of Sundanese culture on May 5, 2024. (Photo by Algi Febri Sugita/ZUMA Press Wire/Alamy Live News)
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05 Jun 2024 02:42:00
A girl walks along rice paddy fields during “National Paddy Day”, which marks the start of the annual rice planting season, in Tokha village on the outskirts of Kathmandu on June 29, 2020. Splashing mud and drinking local rice beer, Nepali farmers this week celebrated National Paddy Day to mark the beginning of the rice-planting season, despite some coronavirus lockdown measures still in place. Traditional farming songs and laughter echoed in the air as farmers waded into waterlogged fields to sow green paddy. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)

A girl walks along rice paddy fields during “National Paddy Day”, which marks the start of the annual rice planting season, in Tokha village on the outskirts of Kathmandu on June 29, 2020. Splashing mud and drinking local rice beer, Nepali farmers this week celebrated National Paddy Day to mark the beginning of the rice-planting season, despite some coronavirus lockdown measures still in place. Traditional farming songs and laughter echoed in the air as farmers waded into waterlogged fields to sow green paddy. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)
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02 Aug 2020 00:01:00