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Post by ogeezer on Mar 30, 2007 20:10:32 GMT -6
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DirtyDon
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Post by DirtyDon on Mar 30, 2007 20:23:51 GMT -6
I remember reading a few years back that the Namese were going to invest heavily into fish hatchery, using the flooded bomb craters as pools... that ever work out for them?
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Post by ogeezer on Mar 30, 2007 20:31:16 GMT -6
not from what we saw in & around Hue northward toward what used to be the DMZ ... with all the channels, tributaries and rivers in this area, all the way down to the Mekong, there's really no reason to do that ... I'm told, the terrain is a lot different in what used to be North Vietnam, where they get less rainfall & have fewer rivers. Considering the tonage of bombs dropped up there, that's a distinct possibility.
Excusey please the terminology for one photo "female dam" is Unleashed's filter system correction, what I stated was d1ke (with an "i" instead of a "1".
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Post by ogeezer on Mar 31, 2007 11:52:22 GMT -6
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Post by ogeezer on Apr 4, 2007 9:58:44 GMT -6
When somebody thinks about Vietnam, other than having fought over 1000 years in one war or another, rice paddies always comes to mind. Unlike those seen around here, theirs has a distinct look, often stair-stepped & always sectioned into smaller allotments, stretching over wider swathes of countryside. Everywhere you look, almost every imaginable space is devoted to them. More Vietnamese do rice paddy work than anything else, often after hours from their primary profession in socialized farm programs set up by the communist regime. For without rice, the Vietnamese would go hungry. Paddies are so immense, even a break from the backbreaking work of rice farming is taken in the paddies. Unlike rice farming in the U.S., the Viets still farm and harvest it in the traditional way. Even separating the rice from the chaff is unique, using cars traveling down paved roads to do the work; then peasants raking & separating the usable portion from the waste. But after a while, even our minder-driver got frustrated with the inconvience of traveling down roads littered with rice stubble. Rice farming is nearly a year round task. As soon as a paddy is harvested, it is worked and replanted, staggering crops so they don't come in all at the same time. Even a leisure day of fishing is best done in a rice paddy or channel.
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