I have found that Hanoi is surrounded by rice paddies no matter what direction you go. They are beautiful! I never knew or even thought about how rice was made and I'm still not 100 percent sure how the process works. The fields are made up of many small individual plants. Right now it's farming season. When I first got here the plants were very short, but as I have been here they have grown quite a lot. In the harvesting season the rice paddies will all be a yellow color. I have seen pictures of this and I would love to come back to see!
The workers in the field are sometimes pulling plants out, spreading seeds, or watching cattle grazing on the crops. All of these photos were taken outside of Hanoi about two hours out. In a village the fields are divided up by families. Vietnam has the richest agriculture region and is second in the world in its export of rice. It is also the seventh ranked consumer of rice in the world. I feel like every meal is made out of rice! You can tell from the photos that the rice plants are in neat rows; it's amazing! When I went to Sapa they were speading rice on what looked like a huge tarp; they were drying the rice to make rice paper. It is used in a lot of dishes here in Asia.
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