The countryside is beautiful, with farmhouses and rice paddies in the valleys, surrounded by wooded hills and mountains. |
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The open landscape is harmoniously composed of grain fields, rice paddies, orchards, rape fields and vineyards. |
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Another larger minnow, Luciosoma bleekeri, has Lao names which allude to its being found in rice paddies. |
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Wild rice was the name because of the resemblance to rice paddies and because it was just growing wild in the wilderness. |
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According to the report, there were three massive cases of pollution, causing the death of vegetable fields, rice paddies and forests. |
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Most of the route stretches through rolling green hills and intervening rice paddies underlain with rich red lateritic soils. |
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By 1986, more than 95 percent of the wild rice harvested was grown not in natural lakes but diked paddies, most of them in northern California. |
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Rice paddies in varying states of cultivation are parceled out in crazy-quilt patterns. |
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Around them the paddies are such a perfectly unsullied shade of green they don't seem real. |
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Generally, wherever it was possible to continue terracing the slopes for rice paddies, this was done. |
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In this heartland of rice paddies and small towns, family means a lot and sympathy for the recently bereaved even more. |
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We found a wonderful little pagoda in the middle of rice paddies and tobacco fields in the village of Wuping. |
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Although the entire town was farmland, he would go to the plowing fields and rice paddies and work until dusk. |
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The luminous, newly sprouted grass fields reminded her of the paddies of tender rice shoots covering the lowland Kampuchean countryside. |
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Several colossal, yet dormant, volcanoes lorded over a steamy jungle realm of rice paddies, nipa huts, majestic palm trees, and lush undergrowth. |
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The road twists through areca palms and banana plantations and rice paddies. |
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Three-quarters of the land is covered with forests and woodland, and much of the land is cultivated with rice paddies. |
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As their efforts reach the downward end of each graceful parabola, they plop into the rice paddies in the valley below. |
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The women are also planting fruit trees and vegetables on the borders separating the rice paddies as a form of inter-cropping. |
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Slowly, Mother Petra is drawing her neighbors away from chemical fertilizers as they witness the high yields of her rice paddies. |
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The yellow flowers of oil-producing mustard plants can be seen amongst the rice paddies. |
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Lombok's scenic interior is filled with lush green rice paddies and lots of local color. |
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We know the land base and the paddock system they have with the rice paddies cannot grow anything else but rice. |
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In the wintering areas this has mainly resulted from built development, but also from conversion of rice paddies to cotton fields. |
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Water is everywhere in this land of massive rivers, deltas, rice paddies and ponds. |
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The Gothic church towers stand out in the surrounding plains dotted with rice paddies. |
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The aim of this mission was to assess the damages caused by the pollution to the local rice paddies and aquaculture. |
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Entire mangrove areas are being cleared to make way for agriculture, especially rice paddies, salt pans and shrimp farms. |
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Inhabiting permanent and semi-permanent eutrophic lakes and swamps, it frequently disperses into adjacent rice paddies and irrigation ditches. |
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Ocean sunfish are most commonly observed several miles offshore, but on occasion may be seen closer inshore around oilrigs and drifting kelp paddies. |
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Tall concrete buildings, trucks, and tuk-tuks, softly lit by the sun's early morning glow, are soon replaced by brown rice paddies, green fields, and tall, arching trees. |
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This small but beautifully designed resort winds its way through colourful flowerbeds, and looks out over rice paddies. |
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Do not walk in forested areas or in dry rice paddies without a local guide. |
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In order of importance these are wetlands, fossil fuels, landfills, ruminant animals, rice paddies and biomass combustion. |
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Aquaculture sites and flooded rice paddies appear as very dark and black, while the village areas and banana fields are very light coloured. |
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Dense jungle alternates with steamy rice paddies and, as pineapple groves give way to coconut plantations, working elephants come briefly into view. |
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I hear the voice of the woodsman making his way to Mount Kasatori, and the songs of the seedling planters in the little rice paddies at the foot of the hill. |
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Much damage may be done to rice paddies by burrowing crabs of various species and by the mud-eating, shrimplike Thalassina of Malaya. |
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Gaudily attired tribespeople wander through market places selling hand-made embroidery, while conical-hatted workers labour in the rice paddies clinging to the lush hillsides. |
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The Indica group is found in lowland paddies of the tropics. |
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The soil is ploughed and harrowed smooth whilst waiting for the suitable time to transplant young shoots of rice that have been pre-planted in small, separate paddies. |
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Encouraging farmers in Thung Yai to grow rice in permanent paddies is also against the Pwo concept of land use because it implies ownership of the land. |
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Terrestrial applications to flooded paddies may pose an unacceptable risk to aquatic organisms within the paddy fields. |
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Forestry and stockbreeding, however, are well developed, and rice paddies are scattered throughout the prefecture. |
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Glamping Sandat, Bali This bucolic camp opened last month amid the rice paddies that surround the hill town of Ubud, in central Bali. |
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With tropical rainforests and rice paddies forming the landscape, temple ruins give us an insight into its cultural heritage. |
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It is a lush, steaming, tangled waterscape of swamps, soggy plains, and rice paddies crisscrossed with thousands of miles of rivers, streams, and canals. |
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There were rice paddies with blue sky reflected in water between bright green shoots, white egrets and a figure in baggy clothes and a wide straw hat knee-deep in water. |
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Some dramatic examples of these rice paddies populate the Banaue Rice Terraces in the mountains of Luzon in the Philippines. |
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Fish and prawns can be cultivated in rice paddies, either arriving naturally or being introduced, and both crops can be harvested together. |
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An especially turgid, yet delicate, negotiation with the Pathet Lao was transformed by his queries about snakehead fish that swim in the rice paddies, unstopping a happy vein of reminiscence from the opposition leader. |
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Visiting Quang Ngai, a quiet town set among rice paddies, your correspondent was startled by a snappily dressed young Vietnamese couple flashing down the main street in an open-topped red Ford Mustang. |
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The pond and temple combine to form a collinear whole around which a variegated landscape has developed with a combination of forest, villages, orchards and rice paddies. |
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Diligent fathers also always weeded their rice paddies. |
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The ricecultivating fishing people find joy in transfusing the energy of their bodies into the steep barren wasteland, and transforming it into fertile terraced rice paddies. |
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That in turn should encourage small landowners to hand over their paddies to be farmed by larger operators, says Takeshi Niinami, the government's chief adviser on the reform. |
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From the deck, you only have to focus beyond the hedgerow of waving coconut palms to rice paddies and groves of vanilla, betelnut and cocoa, all located lower than the level of the backwaters. |
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The rice paddies were eerily deserted, a bad sign. |
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Many rice paddies are now inundated with toxic wastewater. |
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In the absence of sanitation facilities, most rural dwellers use rice paddies, banana groves, and other water sources to dispose of their own waste-thus polluting the water on which they depend. |
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Deforestation of the native forests has been heaviest in the wet southwest, where land was cleared to make way for rice paddies of a growing population and tea and rubber plantations. |
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Delegates debated the Resolution's relevance to CBD programmes of work and whether to invite FAO to study the valuation of ecosystem services provided by rice paddies. |
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The way we dance salegy, lots of people going round and round the room together in a big herd does look a bit like zebus stomping around the rice paddies! |
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And by draining the rice paddies during certain growth cycles, significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions can also be achieved without compromising yields. |
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Waterlogged land attracts various typical migratory species of aquatic fauna such as storks, capped herons, water hens and snipes, which have opted for rice paddies as their natural habitat. |
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The paddies and ponds were poisoned, so the ducks died. |
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The researchers have been working for the past two years to convince Bangladeshi farmers to reduce their pesticide use in order that juvenile fish might again thrive in their rice paddies. |
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The official Korean Central News Agency said the drought caused about 30 percent of its rice paddies to dry up. |
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The official said there were unconfirmed reports that the man had been working in rice paddies before collapsing. |
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With their warm, waterlogged soils, rice paddies contribute up to 17 per cent of global methane emissions, the equivalent of about 100 million tonnes each year. |
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Sugarcane plantations and grazing ranches are common in the high plains, while large rice paddies cover the lowlands south of the towns of La Sierpe and El Jibaro. |
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Indonesia holds some of the greenest, lushest and healthiest of soil perfect for farming and rice paddies can be seen almost everywhere, Bali is no exception. |
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Enjoy some of the best of South-east Asia cycling through the and rice paddies of North Vietnam towards Laos, and alongside the Mekong River to reach Luang Prabang. |
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Lesser unhusked paddies translates into a high degree of hulling requirement while small amount of broken rice means good performance as well as good rice quality. |
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