Harvest Time: Rice in Japan, China, and Bangladesh

Rice is a beautiful crop. We had a hard time choosing photos to show here; there are so many beautiful images of that ancient food staple and its harvest. Here are just a few shots of rice and some of the farmers who harvest it.

• Top photo: Harvesting rice in Java, Indonesia. Image by Flickr member Martijn Nijenhuis.

• Rice harvest in progress near Ji'an, China. Image by Flickr member kevsunblush.

• Carrying the rice home with cattle in Bangladesh. Image by Flickr member IRRI Images, the International Rice Research Institute.

• Hand tool used for harvesting rice in the Philippines. Image by Flickr member Jeff Werner.

• Farmers harvesting rice in China. Image by Flickr member kevsunblush.

• Rice grown on photographer's balcony, in a small container garden. Image by Flickr member kungfootv.

• Farmers in Bangladesh harvesting rice from fields flooded and ravaged by cyclones. Image by Flickr member IRRI Images, the International Rice Research Institute.

• Woman rice farmer and her baby. Image by Flickr member Flickr member IRRI Images, the International Rice Research Institute.

• Rice paddy art in Inakadate village, Aomori, Japan. The colors and images are created by planting different kinds of rice. Image by Flickr member bebot.

• Rice harvest in Crowley, Louisiana. Image by Flickr member .

Have you ever helped with a rice harvest?

Previous Harvest galleries:
• Harvest Time: Picking Tea in Kenya, Japan, and India
• Harvest Time: Soybeans from Maryland to Wisconsin
• Harvest Time: Olives in Israel, Palestine, and California

(All images licensed for use under Creative Commons.)

Comments (4)

I didn't help harvesting rice but I for three years did help 'cleaning' rice fields of the wrong kind of rice: for rice to be a sold for a good price it should be of a pure variety (cultivar) but often other kinds will pop up, from another field or from the leftover of the year before. Before the rice matured, we manually cut down all the 'wrong' rice. It wasn't a bad job but for the mosquitoes! BTW: this was in Northen Italy, in the so called 'rice belt'.

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This game was developed in my hometown and is a lot of fun.

As someone who eats rice with almost every meal (brown rice mostly) I enjoyed this post - I've never actually thought about where rice comes from so it was interesting. Especially liked the pictures of the rice art - very cool!
Tabitha @ http://www.fromsingletomarried.com

That rice art is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.