Rice

The colour of the countryside is green. It is the kind of vivid green that shines in the sun. And the green is everywhere. If you wonder what it is then those are the "padi" fileds (fields were rice is grown). I have seen the rice fields on photos but have never seen them in a real life. It is incredible. And I never knew that rice grows pretty much like wheat. Although the fields are filled with water I managed to get a stem with rice. :o)

The interesting part is that when you plant the rice, the little plant will grow pretty much on one spot and will become very bushy. So that is when the work comes, as you need to take the separate parts of the rice and plant them elswhere in the field, where they will again become very bushy and you will again have to replant some of them to a free place on a field.

Eventually the rice appears and the leaves turn yellow. Then once you harvest the rice you need to beat out the rice away from the stems. Then you steamboil the rice to remove the cover of the rice. And I guess only after that is the stage when you can sell the rice. This is how I understood the process...

I met one lady who used to work on a rice field. She said the water was reaching up to their chest sometimes while the worst was working during the winter time.