what is the physical conditions for wet rice cultivation?
Answer Hi Cheryl, Wet rice cultivation requires a great deal of water and consistent temperatures during the growing season. These temperatures need to be tropical but sub-tropical will work too. Wet rice cultivation is generally done in low lands near a river system but can be done on low hills provided that water can be maintained in the paddys as they would be on flat ground. Subsistance wet rice cultivation is very labor intensive at the begining and end of the season. During the mid point, not as much however, the next rice crop is generally being sown in flats so that the plants are ready to go into the soil soon after harvest. Though this is also labor intensive, it lasts only a brief time. This type of cultivation is generally done communally by an entire village in China or Vietnam or elsewhere in south east Asia or India and Africa. In the US and other countries, it may be done on large mechanized farms of thousands of acres. In the case of the small villages, the homes are u
