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Lying alongside the Nandu River, 20km South of Haikou city centre is an abundance of rich farmland which is tended to by locals from nearby villages and offers some of the most spectacular views of the Haikou countryside.

Working in the rice paddy fields Haikou Hainan Island China

Paddy fields are flooded parcels of arable land used for growing semi-aquatic rice. Paddy fields are generally built into steep hillsides as terraces or adjacent to rivers or marshes. They require large quantities of water for irrigation and a great deal of labour and materials to create. 

Working in the rice paddy fields Haikou Hainan Island China

Asia produces and consumes 90% of the worlds rice, but rice isn’t the only aquatic plant that is used by humans as a food source, other examples are water caltrop, Chinese water chestnut, Indian lotus, water spinach and watercress. 

Working in the rice paddy fields Haikou Hainan Island China

Harvesting and planting machinery can be expensive, it can be quite common across Asia for farmers to plant and harvest manually which is labour intensive work. According to the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) manual harvesting requires 80 to 160 hours per hectare (the size of a football pitch) as opposed to 2.7 to 4.5 hours per hectare by machine.

Working in the rice paddy fields Haikou Hainan Island China

There are many advantages to manual harvesting compared to mechanical. One of the most important advantages is visual image processing which allows the workers to weed out any defected roots and stems. Higher yields can also be gathered due to smaller amounts of damage harvesting by hand compared to harvest by machinery.

Working in the rice paddy fields Haikou Hainan Island China

According to the Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of Soil Science, the earliest paddy-fields date back to 4330BC, based on carbon dating of grains of rice and soil organic matter which was found at the Chaodun site in Kunshan county, Jiangsu province, China. 

There is also archaeological evidence that unhusked rice was stored for the military and for burial with the deceased from the Neolithic period to the Han Dynasty in China.

Working in the rice paddy fields Haikou Hainan Island China

An elaborate network of channels and pipelines brings the water to flood the paddy-field

Working in the rice paddy fields Haikou Hainan Island China

Narrow bunds of earth are used to section plots of paddy field and also used as footpaths by farmers to access their fields

Working in the rice paddy fields Haikou Hainan Island China

Two local boys collect freshwater molluscs from the irrigation ditch
Working in the rice paddy fields Haikou Hainan Island China

Two local boys collect freshwater molluscs from the irrigation ditch

Working in the rice paddy fields Haikou Hainan Island China
Working in the rice paddy fields Haikou Hainan Island China

Transport used by the local farmers, notice the flood level marker. Hainan is prone to typhoons and strong rains and the Nandu River can easily break its banks in the low-level country areas.

Working in the rice paddy fields Haikou Hainan Island China
Working in the rice paddy fields Haikou Hainan Island China

A typical house in the village next to the paddy fields.
Working in the rice paddy fields Haikou (22)
Working in the rice paddy fields Haikou (22)


Working in the fields is long and arduous, many of the farmers don’t finish work until it’s dark. Next time you sit down for your evening meal, just think how much work went into that small bowl of rice.

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