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A flooded field where water does the farming and grain quietly feeds half of humanity.
means A paddy is a flooded field where rice is grown, or by extension the rice crop itself (especially while still in the husk).
from From Malay 'padi,' meaning rice plant or rice in the husk, which English picked up during colonial trade across Southeast Asia. The English 'rice paddy' is technically a doubling — saying 'rice rice field' — but no one minds. Note this is a different word entirely from 'paddy' meaning a fit of temper (that one comes from the Irish name Patrick), and from 'paddy wagon'; the rice sense traveled by ship from the Malay-speaking world, not from Ireland.
- feeds billions
- Rice from paddies sustains over half the planet
- methane source
- Flooded paddies emit major global greenhouse gas
- ancient terraces
- Some paddies are over two thousand years old
- water trick
- Flooding drowns weeds, letting rice thrive alone
- word origin
- From Malay padi, meaning unhusked rice
rice paddies of banaue — 2000-year-old terraced rice fields in the cordillera mountains of the philippines, unesco world heritage site
mekong delta paddies — vietnam's rice-growing region producing 50% of the country's rice output across millions of hectares
paddy fields of kerala — southern india's wetland rice cultivation system, historically the source of kerala's prosperity