Rice farmer makes art with plantings that depict cats

BAN KHON SUNG, Chiang Rai – A sleeping cat hugs a fish in a picture seen from the air, picked out in sprouting rainbow seedlings in a rice field in northern Chiang Rai, illustrating a traditional proverb about abundance.

Farmer Tanyapong Jaikham and a team of workers planted the seedlings at various spots in the field to depict cartoon…