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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.
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 The two men are mounting a pump on a platform with an engine to drive it |
 Five women and four buffalo make their way along a rural road on a rickety cart |
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 After the rice is cut by hand, it is carried by carts to a threshing area
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 Two little girls wait for our truck to pass with its cloud of dust |
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 A boy waters and cools off his buffalo after hauling wagons of rice stalks |
 A woman cuts rice ready for harvesting before a small pagoda in the trees |
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 A boy guides a load of rice, still on the stalks, along a dusty road |
 Women do most of the harvesting work in addition to all their other duties |
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