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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fridayknight" data-source="post: 5237973" data-attributes="member: 87391">My next piece will be on the rice paddy fields suggestion. I was feeling not in the mood for an informative writing altogether so im going half description of a 'view' across the fields and half talking about the mechanics of growing in paddy fields.The sun rose in the eastern fields. Time seemed still and the bronze glow sent scintillating colours across the rippled water near the shaduf at the edge. Yet in the middle, around me, the water mirrored the sky and the moon was still high, the reflection punctuated by the small sprouts.The air was damp and cool, cool enough that I could make dragons from blowing. Yet it would not be long until the sun burnt away the light mist that obscured the terraced hills.The water the pooled in the mud by my feet was warm still, having been heated by the blazing sun the day before. Amongst the swirling depths, where the silt was mixed into the clear water by my movement, the red salmon swam. They hunted pests that would eat the crops and they could always be used as food, even though, at this moment, all that I could do was admire the sparkling orange scales that nimbly danced through the water, more bright than the sun if it was not for the mud obscuring them.Paddy farming, or wet rice farming, originated in Asia and acts as starch in staple diet (although in Japan the westernisation of diet has caused a decrease in importance in urbanized areas). The word paddy comes from the Malay word padi - meaning rice plant. The rice plant is not eaten itself but the seed and the warm/wet climate of Asia is the optimal conditions for wet rice farming (dry rice farms can be found in many countries, especially in the middle-east and America).Paddy fields are therefore often found near rivers or marshes that allow water to be diverted onto the land (and held there by raised banks around the field called bunds) by either electrical or hand pumps. The water is not used mainly for the photosynthesis of the rice plants (6CO2+6H20 -> C6H12O6 + 6O2) - as the water is on the top of the soil not in the soil by the roots - but it also drives away land-bourne pests and weeds.Thanks for reading. Until next time, goodbye.</blockquote>

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