photo contest for traveller

If you stay at Bali - Indonesia or just traveling for holiday you can save your photographs and choice for photo contest about Transport at Bali...

‘Transport transport’? This will sound familiar to anybody who has ever set foot on Bali. Drivers renting their minivans or jeeps and themselves out to bring you wherever you want to go…Smiling from ear to ear, mimicking a steering wheel with both of their hands…’Transport Transport Mister?’

Transportation is the theme of this photo contest. You can interpret it as widely or narrowly as you want to. It could be vehicles in various states of disrepair, people propped up in a van, animals used as means of transportation or being transported. Funny or sad..standing still in traffic or racing along…it’s up to you!

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About Paddy

According to history, including rice genus oryza L. which includes approximately 25 species, scattered in the area of the tropics and sub-tropical regions such as Asia, Africa, America and Australia. According to Chevalier and Neguier, rice comes from the two continents: Oryza Fatua Koenig and Oryza Sativa L come from Asia, while other types of rice that is Oryza Stapfli Roscher and Oryza Glaberrima Stend come from West Africa (African Continent). Oriza Fatura Koenig and Oryza Minuta Presl come Daru India (Himalaya)

Paddy is now a cross between Oryza Officinalis and Oryza Satira F. Spontonea. In Indonesia in the first rice grown in dry land areas with the field system, without irrigation. This is done also in other countries.

Paddy is one of the most important crop cultivation in human civilization. Although mainly based on the type of plant cultivation, rice is also used to refer to some type of family name (genus) are the same, which is called wild rice. World rice production ranks third of all cereal after maize and wheat. However, rice is the main carbohydrate source for the majority of the world.

Country's leading producers of rice is People's Republic of China (31% of the total world production), India (20%), and Indonesia (9%). However, only a small portion of rice production are among the world countries (only 5% -6% of the total world production). Thailand is a major exporter of rice (26% of the total rice sold in the world) followed by Vietnam (15%) and the United States (11%). Indonesia is the world's largest importer of rice (14% of rice sold in the world) followed by Bangladesh (4%), and Brazil (3%).

Farmers and rice are always a couple of victims from the rice trade in Indonesia. If you follow the news in Indonesia within a period of 5 years, the farmers are always losers, but the price of rice tended to increase each year. In fact almost most of the people of Indonesia need rice as staple food, while the eastern Indonesian region need more corn. This issue is not added to the problems of drug syndicate and fertilizer. One more disadvantaged farmers by the system going again.

While the rice fields have become the building and housing of citizen. A map the village became a city, a map of the rice into housing.