When it is warm and sunny, the exits are opened. When the water in the paddies is flowing freely, it will not get warm enough to endanger the fragile rice stalks. Walking through the fields often agitates the pests. They fly off to be picked by the birds or find a place where they can nest undisturbed. Besides, by walking between rows of rice you also step on the weeds, killing them or stunting their growth, thereby freeing your rice plants from competition for nutrients from the soil.
Plants have life and are in full possession of their senses.
They are only deprived of locomotion. By talking to them you establish a very close bond with them hence they are encouraged to produce more. But the rows of rice in the other paddies are still. In a poor household like ours, meat was a luxury. When I was old enough I awaited with keen anticipation the opportunity to help my father butcher a pig.