The mortar was captured on a patrol in a rice paddy, from Vietcong forces.
One hundred acres of his 700-acre farm in Holt Heath, Worcestershire, now resembles a rice paddy field.
"You can't use any of it, " said Shigeru Matsumoto, a farmer with a rice paddy in this area.
The grounds were likely a former rice paddy, but it was easier to imagine a cricket match there than women threshing rice.
Not just any duck, though it was the duck he had just seen swimming in the family's rice paddy.
It said the aircraft made a hard landing on a road and then came to a stop in a nearby rice paddy field.
On his return to Hong Kong 10 years later, his father's rice paddy was paved over and his old neighborhood had become a dormitory suburb called Fanling New Town.
The 367-room Parkroyal on Pickering, which opened in January, is draped in layers of lush greenery that cascade from garden and pool terraces at various levels of the 16-storey building, creating a striking, contoured rice paddy-like exterior.
He is being given this award particularly for his contribution to the creation of fluidized bed paddy dryer and cyclonic rice husk furnace, which have been used and commercialized widely in Thailand as well as in foreign countries.
The Swach's cartridge, a key component of the system, resembles Edison's electric bulb and is made up of a composite of rice-husk ash (a highly porous material derived out of paddy husk) and fine particles of nano-silver, which inhibits bacteria growth.
应用推荐