Rice Paddies in Vietnam
by Jennie Breeze
Title
Rice Paddies in Vietnam
Artist
Jennie Breeze
Medium
Digital Art - Digitized
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Rice fields in Vietnam are the predominant land use in the valley of the Red River and the Mekong Delta. In colloquial Vietnamese, wealth is frequently associated with the vastness of the individual's land holdings. Paddy fields so large as for "storks to fly with their wings out-stretched" can be heard as a common metaphor. Wind-blown undulating rice plants across a paddy field in literary Vietnamese is termed figuratively "waves of rice plants". A paddy field is a flooded parcel of arable land used for growing semiaquatic rice. Paddies can be built into steep hillsides as terraces and adjacent to depressed or steeply sloped features such as rivers or marshes. Paddy fields are a major source of atmospheric methane and have been estimated to contribute in the range of 50 to 100 million tons of the gas per annum. Recent studies have shown that this can be significantly reduced while also boosting crop yield by draining the paddies to allow the soil to aerate to interrupt methane production.
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January 2nd, 2014
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