Rice in Farmstead World — crop in the game, and what it is on a real farm.
Rice is a cereal grass grown in flooded paddies, where standing water suppresses weeds while the roots stay fed.
It is a staple for more than half the world’s people and one of the few crops that thrives with water standing over it.
Farm facts about rice
Rice feeds more people than any other grain, and it is grown in flooded paddies that keep weeds down while the roots stay supplied. (en.wikipedia.org)
Most rice is transplanted by hand into flooded fields, and the depth of the water is managed through the season as the crop grows. (en.wikipedia.org)
A rice mill removes the hull and bran from paddy rice; how much bran is polished off decides whether the result is brown rice or white. (en.wikipedia.org)
Rice transplanters took off in Japan in the 1960s, replacing the crews who set each nursery seedling into the flooded paddy by hand. (en.wikipedia.org)
A transplanter's fingers pinch a pair of seedlings, tuck them into the mud and release — the motion of a whole planting crew repeated by one machine. (en.wikipedia.org)