{"id":8840,"date":"2023-12-22T15:37:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T15:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=8840"},"modified":"2023-12-22T15:37:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T15:37:57","slug":"rice-farmer-makes-art-with-plantings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/22\/rice-farmer-makes-art-with-plantings\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice Farmer Makes Art With Plantings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ban Khon Sung: A sleeping cat hugs a fish in a picture seen from the air, picked out in sprouting rainbow seedlings in a rice field in Thailand to illustrate a traditional proverb about abundance.<\/p>\n<p>Farmer Tanyapong Jaikham and a team of workers planted the seedlings at various spots in the field in the northern province of Chiang Rai to depict cartoon cats, hoping to lure tourists and cat lovers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re expecting tens of thousands to come and see the art in the rice fields,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The process relies on GPS coordinates to position the seedlings as designated in an initial artist&#8217;s sketch, he said, with the plants changing tint as they grow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s crucial to position them accurately, and the rice will gradually change shades over time,&#8221; he added, until in the final harvest stage, the rice straw yields the portrait of Cooper, the cat on which it was modelled.<\/p>\n<p>Viewing towers are being built in the surrounding area to give visitors a glimpse of the artwork, which is based on a Thai saying, &#8220;There is fish in the water and rice in the fields.&#8221; The world&#8217;s second largest exporter of the grain after India, Thailand aims to ship 8.5 million metric tons this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events Ban Khon Sung: A sleeping cat hugs a fish in a picture seen from the air, picked out in sprouting rainbow seedlings in a rice field in Thailand to illustrate a traditional proverb about abundance. Farmer Tanyapong Jaikham and a team of workers planted the seedlings at various spots in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8842,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840\/revisions\/8842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}