But if the returns to labour are lower, why do farmers continue to practice tavy? Labour input and crop yield from hill rice and wet rice cultivation in the east coast region of ...
http://www.fao.org/docrep/r2640e/r2640e0a.htm

In Vietnam, hand weeding is at least five times more expensive than herbicides for weed control in wet-seeded rice. Interrow Cultivation. Pradhan (1969) reported the successful ...
http://www.agnet.org/library/eb/364/

Although the Jingpo have practiced terraced wet-rice cultivation for over a century and it has become the main source of grain, shifting dry-rice cultivation still plays an ...
http://www.everyculture.com/Russia-Eurasia-China/Jingpo-Economy.html

One of the ways to make rice cultivation profitable in Goa is to bring down the cost of ... Seedlings in nurseries are raised either by the dry method or wet method
http://icargoa.res.in/rice_cultivation.htm

Evidence of wet rice cultivation as early as 2200 BC has been discovered at both Ban Chiang and Ban Prasat in Thailand. By the 19th Century, encroaching European expansionism in the ...
http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/r/Rice.htm

Besides wet rice cultivation in their enormous terraces, the Ifugao practice dry cultivation of sweet potatoes and other crops, and rotate vegetables in the terraces ...
http://class.csueastbay.edu/anthropologymuseum/virtmus/Philippines/Peoples/Ifugao.htm

Wet rice cultivation near Long Bian ... Rice fields" by Angus McIntyre is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.
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One possibility is the technique of tidally irrigated wet-rice cultivation (sawah pasang surut) combined with extensive coconut planting. The technique of tidal irrigation was ...
http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/80636e/80636E0i.htm

J apanese began producing SAKE sometime after the introduction of wet rice cultivation in the 3rd century B.C. The first written record of SAKE being consumed in ...
http://www.sakebar.net/nomal/past.html

More advanced farm tools and techniques brought later by Han immigrants greatly promoted the wet-rice cultivation in Dai regions. Today the wet-rice fields account for 70 percent ...
http://www.everyculture.com/Russia-Eurasia-China/Dai-Economy.html

... 330,000 Toraja people who in-habit the mountainous hinterlands of South Sulawesi (formerly Celebes), Indonesia's orchid-shaped island, the arts of wet-rice cultivation are essential for ...
http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/pdf/articles/1189.pdf

Sri Lanka Table of Contents. THE DOMINANT SECTOR of the Sri Lankan economy historically has been wet rice (paddy) cultivation. Its importance in ancient times is ...
http://countrystudies.us/sri-lanka/49.htm

The ancient people of Java since 3000 years BC had known the wet-rice cultivation. This system of agriculture requires a smooth cooperation between villagers, is still being ...
http://www.joglosemar.co.id/kejawen/index.html

The Yayoi people are primarily farmers who live in thatched huts clustered to form villages; they engage in wet-rice cultivation, the introduction of which is of momentous ...
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/04/eaj/ht04eaj.htm

AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY Apatani Wet Rice Cultivation: A Highly Evolved Traditional Agro-ecosystem ARUNACHAL PRADESH P.S. Ramakrishnan Introduction Half of the world ...
http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/sereport/ser/seeds/seed_agri.pdf

... tidal zones" of these five rivers became synonymous with the cultivation of rice. Rice Cultivation. Few crops are more demanding to cultivate than rice, particularly "wet ...
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-899

From time immemorial the Vietnamese have known how to build dykes and avoid flooding, creating more land for wet ?rice cultivation. Thousands of kilometres of dykes have been ...
http://www.thingsasian.com/stories-photos/32507

With wet-rice cultivation, seeds or seedlings are planted out by hand in rows in slightly drained, or puddled, fields. Throughout growing, water levels in paddy fields are kept to ...
http://www.plantcultures.org/plants/rice_production__trade_cultivation.html

Wet Rice Cultivation Long ??nh village, Long ?i?n A commune, Ch? M?i district, An Giang province, some 26 km northwest of Long Xuyên city is well-known for its ...
http://www.folklife.si.edu/resources/mekong/EDGallery1.html

Encyclopedia ? rice Cultivation and Harvesting. Methods of growing differ greatly in different localities, but in most Asian countries the traditional hand methods of cultivating ...
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0860730.html

This started to change with adjustment programs in the 1980s, and the WTO Agreement on Agriculture in 1994 (FAO, 2004). 2.3 The development of wet rice cultivation 2.3.1 Historical ...
http://library.wur.nl/way/bestanden/clc/1843354.pdf

FUJIO Shin'ichiro,IMAMURA Mineo,NISHIMOTO Toyohiro. Key words; AMS-14 C dating, absolute age, Yayoi period, wet-rice cultivation, northern Kyushu,
http://www.initiative.soken.ac.jp/journal_bunka/050509_fujio/index_en.html

In addition to wet-rice cultivation., Cambodia?s climate and soil condition are also suitable for the production of many other subsidiary crops.
http://www.asiasource.org/cambodia/sguide2.htm

Palokhi Karen entry into wet-rice cultivation may be regarded as pioneer activity of sorts because they had not practised this system of rice cultivation ...
http://epress.anu.edu.au/anthropology/karen/mobile_devices/ch05s03.html

The cultivation of the rice began in late spring, around April, with the seed being sown. Ploughs were dragged through the wet soil to create furrows about three inches deep spaced ...
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_es_rice.htm

wet rice cultivation" - related terms and sources
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The first task in the actual cultivation of wet-rice in Palokhi is the planting of rice seed in nurseries. This is done in dry-bed nurseries and it is a ...
http://epress.anu.edu.au/anthropology/karen/mobile_devices/apf.html

Lowland rice, also known as wet rice cultivation, is the most common type in Southeast Asia and allows for two or three crops a year. Seedlings are raised in nursery beds and ...
http://www.thingsasian.com/stories-photos/1036

... in the names of towns such as Pila, Laguna, whose name can be traced to the straight mounds of dirt that form the boundaries of the rice paddy, or "Pilapil." Wet rice cultivation ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_field