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Transplanting the rice paddies of Laohuzui, part of the Yuanyang terraced rice fields, which are the world's largest. Laohuzui alone covers over 1000M of vertical terrain that has been carved by the local Hani and Yi minority groups. The area was designated a World Heritage site by UNESCO, which prevents the landscape from being altered. April is the beginning of the rice planting season when seedlings that have been covered against the cold in hoop-style plastic greenhouses are transplanted by hand to the terraces which have been plowed and prepared by water buffalo. This ancient landscape has started to change, and now 10-20% of the terraces are dry and uncultivated, as young people are choosing more modern forms of work instead of eeking out a meager living of hard labor.

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Transplanting the rice paddies of Laohuzui, part of the Yuanyang terraced rice fields, which are the world's largest. Laohuzui alone covers over 1000M of vertical terrain that has been carved by the local Hani and Yi minority groups. The area was designated a World Heritage site by UNESCO, which prevents the landscape from being altered. April is the beginning of the rice planting season when seedlings that have been covered against the cold in hoop-style plastic greenhouses are transplanted by hand to the terraces which have been plowed and prepared by water buffalo. This ancient landscape has started to change, and now 10-20% of the terraces are dry and uncultivated, as young people are choosing more modern forms of work instead of eeking out a meager living of hard labor.

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