Rice paddy field scenery near Antananarivo, Antananarivo Province, Eastern Madagascar, Africa

A man holds a bundle of freshly harvested rice in the southern Yunnan Province, China, Asia

Villagers harvesting fields of rice, Orissa, India, Asia

Fields and rice fields on a summer day, under a stormy sky, Novara, Po Valley, Piedmont, Italy, Europe

Communal village cattle threshing rice by walking on it in Saura tribal village, rural Orissa, India, Asia

Rice paddy field scenery near Antananarivo, Antananarivo Province, Eastern Madagascar, Africa

Looking over green rice fields on the Sari Organic Walk in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Young man and woman harvesting rice crop by hand using knives, near Rayagada, Orissa, India, Asia

Rice terraces on eastern shore of crater lake, Lake Maninjau, West Sumatra, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Farmers harvesting rice in the southern Yunnan Province, China, Asia

Green rice fields in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Close-up of farmer with rice seedling in hands, Madagascar, Africa

A woman harvests rice in east Bhutan near Mongar, Bhutan, Asia

Myanmar (burma) rice paddy fields on the irrawady river near sagaing

Rice paddy fields on RN7 (Route Nationale 7) near Ambatolampy in the Central Highlands of Madagascar, Africa

Planting rice, Vientiane, Laos

Lady in rice paddy fields on RN7 (Route Nationale 7) near Ambatolampy in the Central Highlands, Madagascar, Africa

Rice farmers planting new crop in the highlands in Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Myanmar (burma) watering rice paddies near amarapura on the irrawady river

Rice ripening in afternoon light in fields, rural Orissa, India, Asia

Rice paddy fields, Lang Co, Vietnam

Rural scene, rice cultivation, Amarapura, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

Rice paddy fields, Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Rice paddy fields and agricultural workers, Karnataka, India, Asia

Farmers harvest and thresh by hand in rice paddy fields, Antananarivo, Madagascar, Africa

Farmer at work in rice paddy field, Madagascar, Africa

Elderly woman working in rice field harvesting rice, Kep, Cambodia, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Elderly woman working in rice field harvesting rice, Kep, Cambodia, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Paddy fields at Tuk Tuk on Samosir Island in Lake Toba, largest lake in Southeast Asia, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Terraced rice fields, Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Farmer working in rice terrace, Duoyishu, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Yuanyang, Yunnan Province, China, Asia

Rice paddy fields in centre of the island, Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Rice terraces in centre of the island, Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Farmer ploughing flooded rice field, central area, island of Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Rice terraces and village, Banaue, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia

Aerial view of the eastern region of the island of Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Spectacular amphitheatre of rice terraces around the mountain province village of Batad, northern area of the island of Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia

Banaue terraced rice fields, UNESCO World Heritage Site, northern area, island of Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia

Path through fields leading to the Ifugao village of Banga-An, northern area, island of Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia

Aerial of rice fields and farm workers at Tirta Gangga, Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Rice terraces at Banaue, UNESCO World Heritage Site, northern region, island of Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia

Farm and rice terraces in Bhutan

Farmer with rice seedlings in hands, Madagascar, Africa

Rice terraces of the Ifugao people,UNESCO World Heritage Site, northern area, island of Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia

Banaue terraced rice fields, UNESCO World Heritage Site, northern area, island of Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia

Rice terraces in centre of the island, Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Reflections in water of rice paddies, Amed village, island of Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Farms and rice paddies, Shuicheng, Guizhou, China, Asia

Procession through rice terraces ner Tenganan, eastern region, island of Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Planting rice, Vientiane, Laos

Rice harvest, Denpasar area, island of Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

India - farming: winnowing rice, andhra pradesh

India - farming: threshing rice, andhra pradesh

India - farming: woman harvesting rice, karnataka

Rice harvest, Hokkaido, Japan

Cambodia farmers getting rice seedlings ready for transplanting, kampong thom

Cambodia transplanting rice in kampong thom province

Indonesia villagers rice, batak house shaped grave in background, lake toba, sumatra

Cambodia transplanting rice in kampong thom

Cambodia transplanting rice in kampong thom province

Vietnam planting rice in ninh binh province

Vietnam planting rice in ninh binh province

Cambodia transplanting rice, kampong thom

Indonesia irawati, a woman farmer weeding her rice field in blang situngkoh, pulo aceh, aceh. this will be the first rice harvest since the tsunami. 2 years after the tsunami

Vietnam planting rice in ninh binh province

Cambodia transplanting rice in kampong thom

Cambodia uprooting rice seedlings ready for transplanting. The farmers house is in the background

Cambodia farmer with rice seedlings. Kampong thom

Cambodia planting rice in kampong thom

Close-up of rice ready for harvesting, Japan, Asia

- farming harvesting rice

Rice growing in paddy fields in the Coto Donana, Andalucia, Spain, Europe

Chinese boy standing in rice paddy fields

Rice paddy hills in remote landscape

Rice paddy hills under sunbeams

Kids planting rice, on the outskirts of Fianarantsoa, Madagascar

A young Chinese girl wearing a princess dress helps her father plant rice in a rice paddy in China.

A farmer plows a flooded rice paddy with a water buffalo in China.

Farmers plant rice in a flooded rice paddy in China.

A farmer plows a flooded rice paddy with a water buffalo in China.

Smoke rises from a farm house surrounded by terraced rice paddies in rural Hunan Province, China.

A farmer plows a flooded rice paddy with a water buffalo in China.

A wicker basket by a flooded rice paddy with bundles of new rice plants to be planted in Hunan, China.

A farmer works to clear the Jinkeng section of the Longshen Rice Terraces in Guangxi, China.

A young Chinese girl wearing a princess dress helps her father plant rice in a rice paddy in China.

Life of a young girl of the Longneck tribe in Myanmar

A farmer plants rice in a flooded rice paddy in China.

A young Chinese girl wearing a princess dress helps her father plant rice in a rice paddy in China.

Farmers plant rice in a flooded rice paddy in China.

High angle view of a rice field, Matsuzaki, Japan

Stacks of straw on a cultivated field, Imari, Saga Prefecture, Japan

Farmer putting natural fertilizer on his rice field, Takeo Province, Cambodia

Farmers woman putting natural fertilizer on a rice field, Takeo Province, Cambodia

Farmhouse in agricultural landscape with green terrace rice fields, Chitre, Upper Kali Gandaki valley, Myagdi District, Nepal, Asia

Adobe houses, earth houses, Chinese: Tulou, of the Hakka minority as a farm with a rice field terrace at Hukeng, Chinese minority, Fujian, China, Asia

Farmhouse in a rice field, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Farmers working in rice fields outside Danang, Vietnam

Farmers working in rice fields outside Danang, Vietnam

Abbey of Lucedio reflecting on rice fields at sunset, Trino Vercellese, Piedmont, Italy, Europe

Agriculture in Goa.