Emphasis Course

The highlight is the one who works in the rice fields, known as mondariso; in some places in northern Italy, whoever is assigned to supervise and manage the works of a paddy field and regulate its irrigation. The paddy field is a superficial arrangement of the soil suitable for the cultivation of rice. Paddy fields are a typical feature of the territories of many East Asian countries including China, Korea, the Philippines, Japan, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand (where the king himself opens the rice season) and Vietnam . Rice cultivation is mainly concentrated in the lower Po valley and in the narrow belt up to the pre-Alps between Lombardy and Piedmont; in particular the Lomellina and the lower province of Milan in Lombardy, the Novarese and Vercellese in Piedmont. Again, in Lombardy, there are rice crops in the Mantua area. From a naturalistic point of view, the rice paddy area was very important because it housed a large part of the European heron population, concentrated in nesting areas called heronry. In recent years, following the modification of the water cycle management technique and the spread of "dry rice fields", the naturalistic value of rice fields has significantly decreased due to ecological imbalances including the enormous proliferation of mosquitoes. Rice cultivation is the cultivation of rice, the main basic food resource of humanity, especially in Asia, followed by wheat and corn, present in every continent and in the most diverse climatic zones of the planet. Rice, generally grown in monoculture, requires large quantities of water resources;