Rice Island: Bali and the Cultivation of Tradition.

by Colin Donohue 


      

Rice paddy. Step by Step
  
Bali’s terraced landscapes flourish from the hard labor of people: each of the minimal green rice sprouts was planted by hand—leaning over and placing a small young sprig of rice plant into the submerged soil, moving step by step through the thick mud, across paddies containing thousands of acres of rice. There may be 10,000 plants in a single paddy.
  
Photo by Colin Donohue.
  
  

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