padivelden (English: “paddy fields (with setting grain)”) is a term or concept described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. Rice fields where the ears (aren) are already setting - one of the phases of rice cultivation visible on a trip through Atjeh.

Translation

paddy fields (with setting grain)

Description

Rice fields where the ears (aren) are already setting - one of the phases of rice cultivation visible on a trip through Atjeh.

Significance

The term padivelden is recorded by Jongejan as part of the cultural, administrative, or institutional vocabulary of Aceh.

See Also

Source

Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu, by J. Jongejans, Oud-Resident van het Gewest Atjeh en Onderhoorigheden, with a foreword by Dr. H. Colijn (Baarn: Hollandia Drukkerij N.V., c. 1938), pp. 57.