A family eating a typical meal of rice in Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

Members of the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association using a mechanical thresher for their harvested rice in Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

A member of the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association caryying a harvest of rice on her head just outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

Women of the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association singing while carrying their rice back from the fields in Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

Members of the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association using a mechanical thresher for their harvested rice in Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

Bundles of harvested rice in a field just outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. Rice is the most important staple crop in Sierra Leone. 

Bundles of harvested rice in a field just outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. Rice is the most important staple crop in Sierra Leone. 

Members of the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association harvesting rice in the field outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. The famers have no mechanized method of harvesting, and instead u 

Women using the traditional methods of threshing rice by simply grinding it with their feet or hands in a field just outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

A man from the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association wrapping up a bundle of rice in the field outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. The famers have no mechanized method of harvesting a 

People making music for a dance to celebrate the harvest season in Gbanka Potho, Bombali District, Sierra Leone. 

Rice fields in Kondeya, Koinadugu District. 

A farmer separating rice grains from the chaff in Kondeye, Koinadugu District. 

Bundles of rice hanging to dry in Kondeya, Koinadugu District. 

Rice fields in Kondeya, Koinadugu District. 

Rice fields in Kondeya, Koinadugu District. 

Villagers harvesting rice in Kondeya, Koinadugu District. Since there is no mechanized way of harvesting available, it is done using a simple blade to cut the rice. 

General view of rice fields in Kondeye, Koinadugu District. 

Young men carrying firewood through rice farms in Kondeya, Koinadugu District. 

Young women carrying firewood to their homes just outside of Gbanka Potho.