Nigel Cattlin / Tungro virus (Rice (Oryza sativa) tungro bacilliform virus) on diseased, damaged Rice (Oryza sativa) plot, Philippines

Cyril Ruoso / Terraced rice fields, Bali, Indonesia.

Cyril Ruoso / Terraced rice paddy fields, Ubud area, Bali, Indonesia

Heather Angel / Chinese farmer wearing traditional bamboo hat ploughing flooded Rice (Oryza sativa) paddy with Water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). Xingping, Nr Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. October 19...

Ashley Cooper / Looking down from the air onto rice paddies in the Shire Valley, Malawi, Africa.

Ashley Cooper / Looking down from the air onto rice paddies and Maize crops in the Shire Valley, Malawi, Africa.

David Fleetham / Woman carrying produce in Rice (Oryza sp.) field in the village of Yiling, Nanning, Guangxi, China.

TJ Rich / Gemstone mine in paddyfield, Ratnapura, Sri Lanka, December 2012.

TJ Rich / Drainage system for gemstone mine shafts under paddy fields, Ratnapura, Sri Lanka, December 2012.

Ingo Arndt / Rice (Oryza sativa) crop growing in terraced fields, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar, December 2013.

Cyril Ruoso / Artificial banks to create a paddy field. This can be a issue for Japanese giant salamanders as it disrupts their habitat. Honshu, Japan, August 2010.

Michael Hutchinson / Presenter Nigel Marven with Spectacled cobra (Naja naja) in a paddy field, India, November 2015