As the farmers age, going to the paddy everyday ... it’s possible to send data over ten kilometers so its overkill for the rice terraces which have a diameter of approximately 2 km.

Some 2.4 million Filipinos work as rice farmers, toiling on lush paddies that blanket the country, some on ancient terraces ...

Farmers must incessantly weed rice paddies to maintain water flow through the terraces. Rice, an annual grass belonging to the same family as barley, oats, rye, and wheat, grows today in a range ...

Terraced rice paddies ... you to believe that farmers carve them into hillsides, using the dug-up rock to build the retaining walls and the excavated earth to level the terraces.

For Joy Poligon, life is simple, if harsh. "If I don't go to our rice field every day, we will have nothing to eat." It takes her an hour for a return trip to Batad, traversing rough terrain to ...

The prefecture is called “the Land of Sunshine” because of its pleasant climate, but farmers working among the paddy fields and ancient rice terraces say that climate change is hurting the ...

Poligon is a rice farmer, mother of two ... Almost 400 square kilometres (154 square miles) of rice terraces, which they have been cultivating for 2,000 years, are spread across the landscape.