Rice in China

The need for rice production has led the Chinese to pay particular attention to irrigation technologies, improving cultivation. The agricultural way of life, centered around rice, has had a strong influence on the social, economic, political and ideological developments of ancient China. In this sense, traditional Chinese culture may be considered a rice culture. The region that have a large production of rice, where the rice is transplanting, and irrigating are in the Yellow River Valley region in the north, and Hanshui Basin region in the northwest. Archaeologists have confirmed that China started planting rice at least 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. The cultivation of rice led to the development of an economic lifecycle centered around agriculture: ploughing in spring, weeding in summer, harvesting in autumn, and hoarding in winter. Rice farming influenced many other aspects of the old Chinese economy. For instance, to be viable Chinese farming depended on sophisticated irrigation techniques. China accounts for 26% of all world rice production. 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. To Chinese people mechanization of rice cultivation is only minimally advanced. The production of rice in China is not just a part of their economy, rice production is a part of their life, the people that work in rice production do this with enthusiasm transforming work in an important part of their lives. So in this way, is impossible to think China without this incredible culture production. In addition, to produce rice, how I said before, they need to develop an incredible structure of production, with many interesting technologies. The production of rice is just a part of this fabulous country.

Below we have some pictures of the production.