Showing posts with label modern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label modern. Show all posts

Friday, April 21, 2006

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.