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December 16, 2005
Rice Fields, Indonesia, 1967Photograph by Samuel W. Matthews Rice is often grown in shallow puddles called paddies. Depending on the type of rice, the paddies can range in water depth anywhere from 5.9 inches (15 centimeters) to 6.5 feet (2 meters). (Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Devestated Land and Homeless People," September 1983, National Geographic magazine)
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