(Signed) Paddy Ashdown

5. Paddy hulling

Paddy and cereals

Goodbye, Paddy

No. Goodbye, Paddy

Paddy Ashdown The global power shift

But, Paddy, dear oh, don't forget

Production of paddy rice, the main staple crop, has increased by 20 per cent over the past two years but has reached only 50 per cent of the pre war level.

Fertilizing a rice paddy with the rest of the patrol.

And every year, 99.9 percent of the paddy is transplanted manually.

The Paddy Lands Act gave security of tenure to tenant farmers.

It was muddy as a rice paddy, and thick with reeds.

They ran out of the paddy seeds which they were sowing, so Loong Parn and Pa Poo went back to town to get more paddy seeds, leaving their daughter at the farm hut.

Of the total paddy land, nearly 400,000 acres were cultivated by 300,000 tenant farmers.

The ceiling was 25 acres of paddy land or 50 acres of other agricultural land.

Of this, about 638,000 acres were under the major crops, tea, rubber, coconut and paddy.

The Paddy Lands Act of 1958 constituted a significant landmark in rural rehabilitation and economic development.

This implied that the bulk of the paddy lands in the country were owned by cultivators.

Except in the case of green gram, the cultivation of all crops including paddy is decreasing.

The rice that you ate in the lunch, and you will eat today, is transplanted by women bending in a very awkward posture, millions of them, every season, in the paddy season, when they transplant paddy with their feet in the water.

Therefore, clerks in charge of labour from country offices or myon offices either made a surprise raid on houses where men slept late at night and early in the morning or drove trucks to take them unhesitatingly when they were working in paddy and non paddy fields.

It is expected that the project could supply 15,000 tons of paddy rice and 1,500 tons of vegetables to Kinshasa.

In agriculture, small farmers would be placed on a collision course with US agro business and their heavily subsidized farm exports. The US exported paddy rice, for example, at a price almost 20 lower than the cost of production in 2003, making it impossible for Central Americans to compete.

The system of tenure of paddy lands which prevailed before 1958 had been in operation in Sri Lanka from time immemorial.

Until then, agricultural workers, the majority of them paddy farmers, had no tangible measure by way of old age social protection.

The effluent from the fishponds is also used, mostly in paddy fields which are dotted around the outer reaches of the marshes.

(a) Production and production capacity

In 30, 50 years back, it was nothing, only paddy fields, and since we invited him here, he felt that he has got a responsibility.

Production

Production

Production?

Production

Production technology

(ii) Production

Domestic production

Production Opportunities

Production development.

Food production

Material production

Other production

Production Designers

Production Supervisor

Production Design

Video DVD Production

(e) Crop production