Another tack would be to tilt production toward upland rice, which is grown on dry land and absorbs far less arsenic than paddy rice.
As the train glided through the flat coastal plain of western Japan, I chewed a snack of dried, vinegary octopus and watched the perfectly rectangular paddy fields pass by in precise rows.
The soldiers were bellying through the rice paddy.
By cutting a ruinous subsidy on paddy fertiliser, for example, he lost the votes of many peasant farmers.
It is a place of quiet beauty, of lush green paddy fields and huge mango trees, where self-sufficient tribes still share the jungle with elephant, tiger and leopard.
This plot of paddy doesn't seem to be any worse than that one.
The verdant paddy-fields, watered by a British-built canal system and now sparkling in the morning sun, give no clue to Shahabpur's agricultural malaise.
The water buffalo squelched up and down the paddy fields, pulling the plough.
There's no need to get into such a paddy.
The red swamp crayfish, for example, has tucked into the paddy fields of the Iberian peninsula with gusto, eating rice seedlings and burrowing into the banks of drainage channels, causing them to collapse.
They are turning waste land into paddy fields.
"Why do we see him everywhere?" the contradiction of wood rod two crow, they looked at the scarecrow felt dissatisfied with the paddy fields.
I could hardly wait to set eyes on the countryside again: the abundant lakes, the geometric paddy fields, the Willow Pattern hills, the Dr Seuss trees.
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