Most rice grown in Vietnam is wet-rice, meaning that it is grown in flooded fields rather than dry land. To get maximum yields, the rice is usually started in special seed beds, then transplanted painstakingly by hand to the flooded fields when the seedlings are strong enough. Other countries of Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand, have also traditionally grown rice in this time-consuming method, but as those countries have become more industrialized, they have begun to turn to the less labor-intensive and less productive methods which do not require transplanting, particularly broadcast (similar to the way wheat is grown in the United States). PRODUCT OF VIETNAM