Rice Harvesting, the "modern" method

Even with "modern" machinery to separate the grains of rice, most of the work is still done by hand.
A field almost ready for harvest in the foreground, and one that is being harvested in the background.





Moving the separation machine into place - I told you there is still a lot of manual labor involved!




Preparing to capture the separated grains of rice.




Work in progress - those bits of yellow in the air are rice straw being expelled after the grain is separated.







Collecting the separated rice grains.




Bagging the rice straw.










Portrait of a farmer...












...and her husband.