Trees and vegetation have to be cleared first when establishing paddy fields. If the land is hilly, then the landscape is terraced (like a series of steps) as paddy fields have to be flooded with water. Each field is dug out and earth is used to build dykes around the edges.
Rice paddy fields are a substantial contributor of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, as organic matter decomposes anaerobicly under the water.
So paddy fields do change the environment in several ways.
they change by having less grains
It grows best in alluvial clay soil , which can retain water and moisture. Rice is cultivated in specially irrigated or flooded paddy fields.
Carbon dioxide is the most serious problem, released whenever we burn fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas).Methane is also a greenhouse gas, in that it will trap heat in the atmosphere, released by cattle, rice paddy fields and melting lakes and tundra.
This is because it holds water perfectly.
Simplified, Too much water and they rot not enough and they die, same can be said for heat and cold. The kind of climate required varies from plant to plant: example - you can't grow cactus in a paddy field and you can't grow rice in the desert !
If no synthetic fertilizer would be used in the production of rice and only organi fertilizer say raw poultry litter would be used as an organic fertilizer than about 100 sacks of 100 kgs each would suffice for one hectare of paddy
Trees and vegetation have to be cleared first when establishing paddy fields. If the land is hilly, then the landscape is terraced (like a series of steps) as paddy fields have to be flooded with water. Each field is dug out and earth is used to build dykes around the edges. Rice paddy fields are a substantial contributor of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, as organic matter decomposes anaerobicly under the water. So paddy fields do change the environment in several ways.
Rice fields, here in Asia we sometimes use Paddy instead of rice when talking about growing the crop
In paddy fields
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a Paddy
It is a specialised planter, designed to transplant rice seedlings onto paddy fields
Rice is grown in paddies, or paddy fields.
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Rice is grown in waterlogged paddy fields. I doubt if any other food crop would be grown after the rice has been harvested.
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.
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