{"id":7054,"date":"2023-08-26T21:57:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T21:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/?p=7054"},"modified":"2023-08-26T21:57:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T21:57:59","slug":"what-is-paddy-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/what-is-paddy-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"What is paddy rice?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Paddy<\/strong>, also called\u00a0<strong>rice paddy<\/strong>, small, level, flooded field used to\u00a0cultivate\u00a0rice\u00a0in southern and eastern Asia. Wet-rice\u00a0cultivation\u00a0is the most prevalent method of\u00a0farming\u00a0in the Far East, where it utilizes a small fraction of the total land yet feeds the majority of the rural population. Rice was domesticated as early as 3500\u00a0BC, and by about 2,000 years ago it was grown in almost all of the present-day cultivation areas, predominantly deltas, floodplains and coastal plains, and some terraced valley slopes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many paddies are flooded by rivers and rainfall during\u00a0monsoon\u00a0season, while others must be irrigated. The paddies have an impermeable subsoil and are bordered by earthen bunds to hold an average of 4\u20136 inches (10\u201315 centimeters) of water in the field for three-quarters of the\u00a0growing season. In all countries,\u00a0excluding\u00a0India, paddies are worked by family labor alone and by the same methods as were used 2,000 years ago: hand cultivation with hoe and spade, or water-buffalo-, horse-, or ox-drawn plough with metal share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paddy, also called\u00a0rice paddy, small, level, flooded field used to\u00a0cultivate\u00a0rice\u00a0in southern and eastern Asia. 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