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Now you may be wondering, how does one go about planting rice?

Well, now the farmers have machines that they drive around the paddies and do everything automatically...

But traditionally, it's basically exactly what you see in these photos.  Starting with a chunk of rice, you break off 5-7 stalks and stick them into the mud.