Rice Cycle

Rice likes to have wet feet.
It grows to around a metre high.
The grains we know as rice are in the seedhead - it's a lot like seeded grass.
People cut the stalks at the base and leave them lying.
When dry they are gathered up and bundled together.
Bundles are held at the base and the heads are slapped onto a tarpaulin or canvas lying on the ground.
The rice grains fall from the heads, and are collected in the cloth.
The stalks are piled onto haystacks and left to dry.
The grains are milled, cooked, and eaten.
The hay is fed to animals in winter.
The animals' poop is used to fertilise the next crop.
Two or three crops are sown and harvested in each of the two viable growing seasons (March-May and September-December)