According to various resources and first hand observation, it appears thsy rice cultivation is still carried out largely on a manual basis.
How or why have farmers resisted mechanization? Is there something about rice cultivation that makes mechsnization particularly difficult, expensive, or otherwise undesirable?
Don't know if this is really a history question. Rice cultivation in the US is mechanized, so it's clearly not an issue of ability to mechanize. Likely it's a combination of cheap labour and expensive equipment. When it's cheaper to hire a person than buy a machine, you hire a person. And when it's cheaper to buy a machine than hire a person, you buy a machine.