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  2. Rice-fish system - Wikipedia

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    Rice-fish systems were traditionally low maintenance, growing additional animal protein alongside the staple food, rice. [3] The space used for fish-rice systems in China grew from 441,027 hectares (1,089,800 acres ) to 853,150 hectares (2,108,200 acres) and the production increased dramatically, going from 36,330 tonnes to 206,915 tonnes ...

  3. Rice-duck farming - Wikipedia

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    While rice is growing: Ducks eat pests (e.g. brown planthoppers) in the crop; they stir water, limiting weeds, and manure the rice. Surface must be even; water depth must suit ducks; young ducks best as they don't nibble rice leaf tips. [5] Rice-fish-duck: China: Fishes bred on rice terraces: Fattens ducks and fish, controls pests, manures the ...

  4. Paddy field - Wikipedia

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    Banaue Rice Terraces of Luzon, Philippines, carved into steep mountainsides Taro fields (loʻi) in Hanalei Valley, Kaua'i, Hawaii Paddy field placed under the valley of Madiun, Indonesia Farmers planting rice in Cambodia. A paddy field is a flooded field of arable land used for growing semiaquatic crops, most notably rice and taro.

  5. Rice production in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Dikes are used to protect the rice paddy fields from the channels of saltwater which overflow during high tide. Karabane, Senegal, 2008; similar delta cultivation techniques were used in West Africa back to at least the 15th century. [9] Similar dike, used to grow rice in the early United States, now abandoned and reclaimed by woodland [9]

  6. Puddling (agriculture) - Wikipedia

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    Puddling is the tillage of rice paddies while flooded, an ancient practice that is used to prepare for rice cultivation. Historically, this has been accomplished by dragging a weighted harrow across a flooded paddy field behind a buffalo or ox, and is now accomplished using mechanized approaches, often using a two-wheel tractor.

  7. Rice production in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Paddy field in Sammanthurai, Ampara District. Rice production or Paddy production is one of the main productions and staple foods in Sri Lanka. It cultivates in all districts of Sri Lanka during two monsoon seasons. It is estimated that about 708,000 ha (1,750,000 acres) of land uses for paddy. [1] The seasons are called Maha season and Yala ...

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  9. Ayumodoki - Wikipedia

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    The ayumodoki or kissing loach (Parabotia curtus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Botiidae. [3] It is found in lakes and streams on Honshu, the largest island in Japan. [4] Spawning grounds for kissing loach are ditches and small reservoirs for rice cultivation of a river system located in Japan.