Five years ago they were forced to give up their rice fields on the valley floor.
At the moment, large amounts of pesticide are sprayed to accomplish this task in rice fields.
They are also concerned this water may bring more dissolved caesium into rice fields in the future.
But Yoshino Shigeo takes scant pleasure in his green rice fields and neat rows of tomato plants.
On the outskirts of the city, a modern toll road appears from nowhere and soars over lush rice fields.
It said around half the 140, 000 people living in the camps are in flood-prone rice fields and low-lying coastal areas.
Kahang, which produces rice, vegetables, fruits, herbs and seafood, has tours of its rice fields, prawn harvests and wild duck sanctuary.
The final mile was on foot, past banana trees and rice fields.
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Founded in order to help develop sustainable tourism, the Puri Lumbung Cottages are set among rice fields with views down to the coast.
Flocks of brilliant white egrets settle on the terraces of the rice fields, hungrily watching for fish in the clear waters that trickle through.
Accommodations range from floating chalets amid rice fields to simply camping.
The teenage girl he meets on a train to Nha Trang who can't fathom the beauty Pham sees in the rice fields outside their window.
From here, the train skirts along the wealthy southwest edge of the city, through neighbourhoods that less than 100 years ago were nothing but rice fields.
In Khepupara town, in the southwestern Patuakhali district of Bangladesh, families sheltering from the storm said they were worried about their homes, rice fields and shrimp farms.
Fog is actually decreasing in Milan, Schultz notes, as more rice fields are replaced by parking lots and other structures, reducing the amount of moisture floating into the air.
What if the million or so Muslims (estimates vary) who had gathered in rice fields at Raiwind, near Lahore, were roused from devotion to march on the capital of Pakistan's biggest province?
Fog is much more prevalent in Italy, where the major metros of Milan and Rome get socked in 300 days a year thanks to pollution that coagulates with air moisture from flooded rice fields.
With its comparably haunting scenery, including rice fields in the south and misty mountains in the north, its temples, some of which predate Angkor Wat, and its relative lack of crowds, Laos, ready or not, may just be it.
The product metabolizes into inactive compounds within hours of being ingested, she said, a feature crucial to its development for use in rice fields in Asia, where farmers needed something that wouldn't sicken other animals and children.
The Philippines sought danger listing as a way to raise national and international support and cooperation in the preservation of these remote high rice fields maintained thanks to the transmission of traditional knowledge from one generation to the next.
Houses tend to be passed through families rather than sold, rice fields are shared with those who need them the most, the religions of others are respected, and it's a matter of deep-held belief that visitors should be greeted with warmth.
The SIP, which emerged out of rice fields and farmland, is a truly remarkable example of how planning can transform a sleepy tourist destination into an economic juggernaut. (This also remains one of my favorite economic development stories in all of China.) Two key factors drove the development of the SIP.
Mr. Stryjewski likes to use long-grain Louisiana rice sourced from fields west of the city and around Lafayette.
Hena's family hailed from rural Shariatpur, crisscrossed by murky rivers that lend waters to rice paddies and lush vegetable fields.
Five hundred kilometers to the south, Iwate prefecture's farmers are bringing in bundles of rice straw from the miniature fields nestling in valleys.
The countryside around here forms some of Mali's richest farmland - flat fields of corn and rice interspersed with big fruit trees.
He somehow snuck past the guards, foraged in nearby fields, and returned with rice and potatoes.
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About a third of the world's rice paddies have salt problems, and yields in such briny fields may be half what they would be if the water in them were fresh.
On the street, mopeds clatter past and children wave from the backs of pick-up trucks, while in the fields beyond the village, evening shadows fall across the rice paddies and rubber trees.
Lucrative rice crops are being hard hit, too, as saltwater creeps into aquifers beneath the fields, contaminating wells used for irrigation and killing crops.
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