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Balinese painting, c. 1940, in traditional style, depicting paddy fields with ducks foraging for food. In 2010, Asia produced around 90% of the world's rice, and in 2012 some 80% of all duck meat.
Rice polyculture is the cultivation of rice and another crop simultaneously on the same land. The practice exploits the mutual benefit between rice and organisms such as fish and ducks: the rice supports pests which serve as food for the fish and ducks, while the animals' excrement serves as fertilizer for the rice.
Aigamo ducks in rice paddy—合鴨農法. After ten years of using organic farming practices, Furuno learned of a traditional Japanese rice farming method that consisted of using ducks to eliminate the weeds in rice fields, the "Aigamo Method." His first experiment was a success, but not without problems.
Rice-duck farming is a polycultural practice of raising ducks as well as growing rice on the same land, providing farmers with additional income, while the manure produced by the ducks benefits the rice crop. This system has existed in different forms for centuries in Asian countries including China, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Rice is China's most important crop, raised on about 25% of the cultivated area. Most rice is grown south of the Huai River, in the Yangtze valley, the Zhu Jiang delta, and in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan provinces. [citation needed] Rice appears to have been used by the Early Neolithic populations of Lijiacun and Yunchanyan in China. [32]
Rice accounts for more than half of the calories in the average diet, and the source of livelihood for about 20 million households. The importance of rice in Indonesian culture is demonstrated through the reverence of Dewi Sri, the rice goddess of ancient Java and Bali. Evidence of wild rice on the island of Sulawesi dates from 3000
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Rice terraces in Tagallalang Farmer. Tegallalang is a district in the Gianyar Regency, Bali, Indonesia. As of the 2010 census, the area was 61.80 km 2 and the population was 50,625; [1] the latest official estimate (as at mid 2019) is 53,760. [2] Located around 10 km north of Ubud, its terraced rice fields are a tourist attraction in the area. [3]