Deepwater Rice - towards a general understanding - 3 - what is deepwater rice? |
Most people are familiar with the classical paddy field, either as on the left in Malaysia or as on the right in terraces in Taiwan.
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with the development of short-stemmed high yield rice varieties, such as that below, is also pretty well-known but what of the rice on the left? How, where and why is it grown? That, of course, is what this story is about. |
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Definitions and where it is grown
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