Rice Culture of China

Chinese culture is based on numerous subcultures and its agriculture, a way of life, is centered on rice. It has been suggested that rice has been cultivated for 3000-4000 years, where it gradually rose to become an important part of life.

Nowadays China is the world's largest producer of this crop, and it makes up a little less than half of the country's total grain output. It is interesting that China accounts for 26% of all world rice production.

The Chinese people eventually developed a process of growing rice on farms using puddling soils and then transplanting the seedlings. Today, this system is still widely used in China.

All rice cultivation is highly labor intensive. Rice is generally grown as a wetland crop in fields flooded to supply water during the growing season.Transplanting seedlings requires many hours of labor, as does harvesting. Mechanization of rice cultivation is only minimally advanced.

Here are some amazing pictures of how rice is cultivated in China.