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Water temples of Bali.
A Spiritual Landscape
The beauty of the Balinese landscape is legendary. Its appeal stems in part from the manner by which its residents have carved the island into exquisite cascades of rice terraces. The hillsides drop from volcanic highlands in sharp edges of green plantings and mirror-like watery surfaces. Seen from a distance, the rice fields shine in the tropical sun as they flow across Bali, hugging the contours, following the gradient of the island from the mountains to the sea. A pleasure to behold, the terraces also are sophisticated systems of aquatic engineering, designed with careful attention to slope angles, to hydraulics and the normal run of ...
- CONGLOMERATES TO START ESTABLISHING RICE FIELDS NEXT YEAR
- Magazine article from: Indonesian Commercial Newsletter January 13, 1992 700+ words
Conglomerates will start making new rice fields this coming planting season, i.e...1992. The regulations on the making of rice fields by conglomerates are being prepared...year. Some 100,000 hectares of new rice fields are planned to be established for the...
- Ducks curb weed and straw problems in flooded rice fields. (Update).(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World August 1, 2002 700+ words
...foraging waterfowl in winter-flooded rice fields helped control weeds and increase the...Department of Agronomy and Range Science. In rice fields that were flooded during the winter...than 50 percent, compared to flooded rice fields where wildfowl were fenced out. Furthermore...
- ONLY 2.46 PCT OF INDONESIA'S RICE FIELDS UNHARVESTABLE IN 2009.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News April 9, 2009 700+ words
...April 8 Asia pulse - Unharvestable rice fields due to floods, drought and pests in...Wednesday the acreage of unharvestable rice fields in the January-March 2009 period was...was lower than the average acreage of rice fields which failed to produce harvestable...
- HUNDREDS OF HECTARES OF RICE FIELDS IN OKI FLOODED.
- News wire article from: ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia) March 21, 2009 700+ words
...has inundated hundreds of hectares of rice fields at Sukapulih village. The body of the...causing the river to overflow into the rice fields, according to local residents. "Our rice fields have been under floodwaters for the past...
- Rice Fields Become a Golden Touch for Tangshan Farmers
- Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire April 11, 1996 700+ words
...Hebei Province. Since they created rice fields out of salty beaches their income has...hectares of salty beaches into productive rice fields. Caozhuangzi's practice has quickly...low-yield land could be turned into rice fields. Tangshan farmers have raised 160 million...
- Stopover ecology of Black-tailed Godwits Limosa limosa limosa in Portuguese...
- Magazine article from: Bird Study Lourenço, Pedro M; Piersma, Theunis July 1, 2008 700+ words
Capsule Conservation management of rice fields may be necessary to guarantee the availability...find good foraging areas in Portuguese rice fields, feeding primarily on rice kernels...Africa in marshes, flooded plains and rice fields (Cramp & Simmons 1983) and an...
- DROUGHTS HIT 19,177 HECTARES OF RICE FIELDS IN C JAVA.
- News wire article from: ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia) July 1, 2008 700+ words
...Droughts have hit 19,177 hectares of rice fields in Central Java causing harvest failures...afficial said. The droughts had hit rice fields in 24 districts, damaging rice plants...droughts had hit plants on rain-fed rice fields where farmers had actually been suggested...
- LONG DROUGHT AFFECTS 332.5 HECTARES OF GARUT RICE FIELDS.
- News wire article from: ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia) September 30, 2009 700+ words
...ANTARA): At least 322.5 hectares of rice fields in Garut district have dried up during...local official said. The dried-up rice fields were spread in 142 villages in 28 sub...Meanwhile, the 322.5 hectares of dried up rice fields belonged to a total of 1,612 farmers...
Source: HighBeam Research, Water temples of Bali.