Women transporting bundles of freshly harvested rice on a bicycle. 

Women transporting bundles of freshly harvested rice on a bicycle. 

Women transporting bundles of freshly harvested rice on a bicycle. 

Women transporting bundles of freshly harvested rice on a bicycle. 

A woman planting rice seeds in a rice paddy prepared for cultivation. 

A woman cultivating soil in a rice paddy. 

A woman cultivating soil in a rice paddy. 

A woman cultivating soil in a rice paddy. 

A woman walking home through the rice paddies with a traditional carrier basket draped over her shoulders. 

A woman farmer spreading rice straw ash into an inundated rice paddy. 

A woman tending to her cattle as they graze on the edge of a rice paddy. 

A woman spreading fertilizer by hand on a vegetable crop. 

A woman starting a fire for cooking using rice straw. 

Women farmers bringing bags of their rice paddy yields to a rice mill where the grains will be separated from the chaff by a machine. 

A woman hand watering a vegetable crop. 

A local farm woman checking on her pigs. 

A local farm woman checking on her pigs. 

Women farmers sprinkling rice straw ash on the newly planted crop of rice. 

A young girl taking a bundle of rice straw from a large bale. The straw is used as food for livestock as well as for starting kitchen stove fires for cooking. 

A local farm woman checking on her pigs.