Children playing in the local school yard. 

Children playing in the local school yard. 

Children playing in the local school yard. 

Women weaving bamboo baskets together. By weaving baskets and selling them at the market these women earn extra income beyond their usual rice crop yields. 

A farmer riding in an ox-drawn cart in the local village. 

Women farmers preparing the earth for the planting of a new rice crop. 

Women farmers preparing the earth for the planting of a new rice crop. 

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

A young girl working the rice mill in her family's shop. 

Women weaving bamboo baskets together. By weaving baskets and selling them at the market these women earn extra income beyond their usual rice crop yields. 

Women weaving bamboo baskets together. By weaving baskets and selling them at the market these women earn extra income beyond their usual rice crop yields. 

A villager weaving his way through cattle on a rural village street. 

A woman starting a fire for cooking using rice straw. 

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

A woman cultivating soil in a rice paddy. 

A restaurant owner fire roasting a dog in rice straw on the side of a road. 

Women 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 cultivating soil in a rice paddy. 

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