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These women are also from KARNATAKA and they are helping MAKE one of the most

important things to eat in India - RICE.

Rice grows in flooded fields called PADDY FIELDS . Here the women are ankledeep in the

paddies replanting the RICE SAPLINGS at regular intervals so that the rice will grow strong and

healthy.

Can you see how the women have tied up their sarees so that their clothes don’t get wet in the

water?

I think their backs must ache by the end of the day, don’t you?

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