Rice Harvest
in Kampong Chhnang Province

December, 2005

The rains were late this year and so the rice harvest has been delayed until December. Many school children and government employees are not at their desks these days as they help their families harvest the rice crop so important to their survival.

These are harvest time scenes from the rural province of Kampong Chhnang.


Fixing a pump

The two men are mounting a pump on a platform with an engine to drive it

Five women on a buffalo cart

Five women and four buffalo make their way along a rural road on a rickety cart


A cart full of rice to be threshed

After the rice is cut by hand, it is carried by carts to a threshing area

Two girls watch our passing truck

Two little girls wait for our truck to pass with its cloud of dust


Buffalo in pond

A boy waters and cools off his buffalo after hauling wagons of rice stalks

Women cutting rice

A woman cuts rice ready for harvesting before a small pagoda in the trees


Another load of rice on the road

A boy guides a load of rice, still on the stalks, along a dusty road

Women in the rice field

Women do most of the harvesting work in addition to all their other duties


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