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Saving the baobab trees of Madagascar
December 06, 2011 | Agence France-Presse

Rice Paddies Wikipedia Information

A paddy field is a flooded parcel of arable land used for growing rice and other semiaquatic crops. Rice can also be grown in dry-fields, but from the twentieth century paddy field agriculture became the dominant form of growing rice. Paddy fields are a typical feature of rice-growing countries of east and southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Nepal, China, Sri Lanka,...

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South Sutter facility combines wakeboarding, catfish farming
August 20, 2011 | AppealDemocrat
Against a backdrop of golden wheat fields and green rice paddies, a wakeboarder pops, skims and carves his own wake across Deep Water Lake as another crop swims beneath his feet...

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John Allan' Jack' Stewart: 1924 - 2011
August 14, 2011 | chicagotribune.com - Local news
John Allan'' Jack'' Stewart's agronomy work took him from the cranberry bogs of Maine to rice paddies in Asia, from famine stricken areas of South America to drought-ravaged...

West Africa Peace Corps adventure for Ankeny couple
July 05, 2011 | DesMoinesRegister.com
Grant money received from the United States Agency of International Development will be used to repair the canal that feeds water to the rice paddies and winter garden plots. The...

Rice Paddies on twitter

	RT @cbsnewsman: Hoekstra releases new ad -- no Asians, no rice paddies #petehoekstra #michigangop #michigandems http://t.co/qvoSsRR3 Twitter: @CrassPolitical
	@petekarany haha lush rice paddies? Si useme mugunda wa mchele :P Twitter: @KibaliMoreithi
	RT @petekarany: But some names. This town in the lush rice paddies of Mwea in #KirinyagaCounty, Wanguru. It means clitoris. Twitter: @caloti
	But some names. This town in the lush rice paddies of Mwea in #KirinyagaCounty, Wanguru. It means clitoris. Twitter: @petekarany
	Sri Lanka: Flood-resistance in SRI rice paddies sparks intererst in System of Rice Intensification (OxfamAus) #SRIrice http://t.co/COiBzvmC Twitter: @SRIRice
	Thoughts of rice paddies in Vietnam running over ba ngoai's soft hands. The continuous hard crunch of jackfruit... http://t.co/DG8L6Zgn Twitter: @alotus_poetry