Sentences with phrase «irrigating rice paddies»

Since entering» semi-retirement» in 2001, my research has concentrated on the climatic role farmers played during the last several thousand years by clearing land, raising livestock, and irrigating rice paddies, all of which put increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

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Perasi waves at a family splashing in water that will later flow out to irrigate their rice, as well as the coconut trees and bird - filled shrubs that divide the paddies.