Living in the field

Farmers often build small houses of local materials next to rice fields and live in them temporarily while the fields are in cultivation. (Learn more)

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Highland families may use these small houses on a permanent basis, especially if they are near permanent wet-rice fields. Yet the houses sometimes are moved or abandoned when families cultivate other fields during different years or seasons.

The canal running in front of this house is used for irrigating wet-rice fields.

Learn more about Mai Chau, Vietnam, architecture, farming, highlanders, hill tribes, houses, rice, rural life, and wet rice.

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