A Rice field - did you ever think of rice looking like this from growing to landing on your plate?
I feel like a kid who isn't sure how somethings grows even though I've seen and eat it a million times.
Having not grown or seen fields how can kids (or me) know about these or feel in touch with it in reality?
Have you seen these things in real life (does it grow in your country for example?) Soyou might have seen this as a picture (me not often), but also never in real life (?)
And then it's on your plate so it's a lot less further obvious in a plastic packet than that of apples or something you might see more often right?
Wait... don't answer if you see apple trees regularly.
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SOME INFO BELOW PARTIALLY FROM
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-farmers-iraq-rice-production.html
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a staple of the Iraqi diet but drought and declining rainfall have strangled local production.
Iraq's rice crop usually requires between 10 and 12 billion cubic meters of water during the five-month growing period.
Iraq's scorching sun, with temperature soaring towards 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit), Joufi trudged across the muddy field, pausing to tend malfunctioning sprinklers spread out on his one hectare (2.5 acres) of land.
"We want to learn which seed genotypes respond well" to irrigation using sprinklers instead of flooding, Moussa said.
