Intensive Subsistence- Vietnam
Agriculture counts for roughly 21% of Vietnam's GDP( Gross Domestic Product) as dominated mostly by rice farming. Vietnamese rice farmers typically own large plots of inherited land passed down for generations, but only make about $5(USD) a day. Rice has to be grown in water and because of this much of the lowlands of Vietnam has been flooded to support rice farming. Referred to as a rice paddy, one paddy yields about 20 pounds of rice that can sell for about $50.
While in Vietnam, I definitely saw many rice paddies throughout the country side. However, agriculture is slowly diminishing in Vietnam so there were a lot of overgrown, abandoned rice paddies as well.
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