As the plants grow the field become more and more saturated with the beautiful green color of healthy rice plants. The abundance of fresh and clean water welcomes a rich aquatic life that grows and prospers as long as the rice fields are flooded - here in Banaue all year long.
In Cambodian rice-fields for example each rainy season the flooded rice fields accommodated huge quantities of small delicious fishes - about 5-7 cm long - that supplemented the food value of rice fields.
Another food resource potential in rice fields used in some countries are frogs - abundant in the clean waters of rice fields frogs grow by the thousands again and again.
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