BANGLADESH-NATORE-PADDY-HARVESTING

BANGLADESH-NATORE-PADDY-HARVESTING

(240505) -- NATORE, May 5, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Farmers use sickles to harvest the rice in a field in Natore, Bangladesh on May 4, 2024. (Xinhua)

BANGLADESH-NATORE-PADDY-HARVESTING

BANGLADESH-NATORE-PADDY-HARVESTING

(240505) -- NATORE, May 5, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Farmers use sickles to harvest the rice in a field in Natore, Bangladesh on May 4, 2024. (Xinhua)

BANGLADESH-NATORE-PADDY-HARVESTING

BANGLADESH-NATORE-PADDY-HARVESTING

(240505) -- NATORE, May 5, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Farmers use sickles to harvest the rice in a field in Natore, Bangladesh on May 4, 2024. (Xinhua)

Chongin, North Korea

Chongin, North Korea

CHONGJIN, North Korea - Children carry sickles for farming work in a suburb of Chongjin, North Korea, on Aug. 30, 2012.

Rice harvest in terraced fields in south China's Guangxi

STORY: Rice harvest in terraced fields in south China's Guangxi DATELINE: Sept. 22, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:04 LOCATION: GUILIN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Longji Zhuang village of Longsheng County, Guilin 2. various of people from Longsheng County busy harvesting in the fields STORYLINE: The Longji Rice Terraces in Longsheng County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, has ushered in a bumper harvest season. Local farmers wield sickles to cut the crops in the fields, while others transport and thresh the rice, which form a busy harvest scene. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Guilin, China. (XHTV)

Harvesting rice

Harvesting rice

A scene of rice plant harvesting in the mid Meiji era. Three bend over with sickles to reap the rice. Puddles are seen in the paddy.==Date:Middle Meiji, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number43‐12‐0]