Fertilizing a rice paddy with the rest of the patrol.

It was muddy as a rice paddy, and thick with reeds.

It is expected that the project could supply 15,000 tons of paddy rice and 1,500 tons of vegetables to Kinshasa.

(b) On 21 and 22 August SLORC troops allegedly burnt down 70 houses in upper and lower Gay Loe village and destroyed 21 acres of planted rice paddy as well as a substantial quantity of brown rice

The rice that you ate in the lunch, and you will eat today, is transplanted by women bending in a very awkward posture, millions of them, every season, in the paddy season, when they transplant paddy with their feet in the water.

(Signed) Paddy Ashdown

5. Paddy hulling

Paddy and cereals

Goodbye, Paddy

Production of paddy rice, the main staple crop, has increased by 20 per cent over the past two years but has reached only 50 per cent of the pre war level.

Rice, Rice, Rice.

No. Goodbye, Paddy

I was in Shanghai, in an office block built on what was a rice paddy five years ago one of the 2,500 skyscrapers they've built in Shanghai in the last 10 years.

(d) On 25 August SLORC troops under the command of Soe Nwe and Win Soe allegedly burnt down 16 houses of Ywe Beh village and destroyed 35 acres of planted rice paddy

Rice. Rice. Hank Rice.

Experiments of yield estimation for wheat and maize in northern China and paddy rice in southern China have been completed. Work on a more extensive application of the technology is in full swing

Paddy Ashdown The global power shift

In terms of yield estimation for staple crops, fields of winter wheat, maize and paddy rice, comprising 85 per cent of total grain output, have been chosen for the work, covering 10 provinces and municipalities. Using the county as the statistical unit, yield estimates at the provincial (or regional) level have been forecasted. The yield estimation accuracy (area and total output) for wheat is above 95 per cent for maize, above 90 per cent and for paddy rice, above 85 per cent.

But, Paddy, dear oh, don't forget

Rice

Rice!

And every year, 99.9 percent of the paddy is transplanted manually.

The Paddy Lands Act gave security of tenure to tenant farmers.

Wrapped rice!

Chicken, rice...

Rice imports

Rice cake!

Rice paper?

Some rice?

Eat rice.

Lucy Rice.

It's rice.

(b) In Asia and the Pacific, the development of hybrid rice, rice biotechnology and rice integrated crop management systems as well as the diversification of the mono rice systems

In Malaysia, farmers' associations celebrated the Year with the launching of the 10 Tonne Club for rice farmers, while the Myanmar International Year of Rice Committee published three books Varieties of Rice, Rice Culture and Rice Research Activities.

Over 200 articles on rice crop management (rice agronomy) and rice crop improvement (plant breeding, including rice biotechnology) were received from rice scientists and researchers worldwide. Two papers, one from China and one from Japan, won the award

As part of the International Year of Rice celebration, the Indonesian Rice Foundation published the book Rice Is Beautiful, while a Rice Week celebration was organized in July in West Java.

They ran out of the paddy seeds which they were sowing, so Loong Parn and Pa Poo went back to town to get more paddy seeds, leaving their daughter at the farm hut.

Buy wrapped rice.

Buy rice cake!

Perfect. With rice.

Rice, come here.

Thieves! Rice thieves!

Cook the rice.

I want rice.

Vanilla rice pudding.