One hundred acres of his 700-acre farm in Holt Heath, Worcestershire, now resembles a rice paddy field.

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It said the aircraft made a hard landing on a road and then came to a stop in a nearby rice paddy field.

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Her husband's family owns one hectare of paddy field, which is not nearly enough to support them, so he works in the town hall.

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But which to them was better than 14 hours a day in a paddy field looking at the wrong end of a water buffalo.

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