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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. It originates from the Neolithic rice-farming cultures of the Yangtze River basin in southern China, associated with pre-Austronesian and Hmong-Mien cultures.
Established. 12 October 2004. Location. Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia. Coordinates. 6°11′29.2″N 100°19′33.6″E / 6.191444°N 100.326000°E / 6.191444; 100.326000. Type. museum. The Paddy Museum (Malay: Muzium Padi) is a museum in Alor Setar, Kota Setar, Kedah, Malaysia.
Phyllocoptes eupadi. Phyllocoptes eupadi[ 1][ 3] (Newkirk, 1984) is a mite that chemically induces a pouch gall to develop as a sub-spherical distortion rising up from the upper surface of the lamina of leaves of blackthorn shrubs Prunus padus, Prunus spinosa and other Prunus species. Synonyms are Phytoptus padi Nalepa, 1890 and " Eriophyes ...
Rhopalosiphum padi. Bird cherry-oat aphid on corn husk. Bird cherry-oat aphid ( Rhopalosiphum padi) is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera. It is a true bug and sucks sap from plants. [ 1] It is considered a major pest in cereal crops, especially in temperate regions, as well as other hosts in parts of Northern Europe ...
Rhopalosiphum maidis, common names corn leaf aphid and corn aphid, is an insect, and a pest of maize and other crops. It has a nearly worldwide distribution and is typically found in agricultural fields, grasslands, and forest-grassland zones. Among aphids that feed on maize, it is the most commonly encountered and most economically damaging ...
Taring Padi. Taring Padi is a collective of underground artists in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The group was formed in 1998 during the general upheaval following the fall of Suharto. [1] Taring Padi are well known for the production of posters embedded with political and social justice messages, using the cukil (woodcut) technique onto paper or canvas.
Taphrina padi is a fungal plant pathogen that induces the form of pocket plum gall that occurs on bird cherry ( Prunus padus ). The gall is a chemically induced distortion of the fruits, which are swollen, hollow, curved and greatly elongated, [1] without a seed or stone, but retaining the style. [2] The twigs on infected plants may also be ...
Scirpophaga sericea Snellen, 1880. Scirpophaga innotata, the rice white stemborer, is a species of moth of the family Crambidae. The species was described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is found in Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines and the tropical north of Australia . The larvae are considered a pest on Oryza sativa (Asian rice).