Wet Rice Cultivation

Wet-rice cultivation means growing rice in fields that are deliberately flooded or kept very wet during much of the growing period. In Bali, these are the familiar green terraced rice fields. Wet rice cultivation (paddy agriculture) is an agricultural system where rice is grown in flooded fields (paddies or sawah). Standing water suppresses weeds, regulates soil temperature, and supplies continuous nutrients, allowing the same land to remain fertile for centuries without degradation. The process of doing the wet rice cultivation are Seedling Nursery, Field Preparation, Transplanting, Water Management and Harvesting & Threshing. After need to dry before processing in rice mill.