Tuesday, 11/10/2016 20:42 (GMT+7)
Farmers in the highland district of Si Ma Cai in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai are now harvesting rice.
Si Ma Cai district has a rice area of 1,370 hectares.
Good weather helps farmers harvest 460 kilograms of rice per hectare, or some 21,000 tons in total.
Being one of the 62 poorest districts of the country, many families here cannot afford machines for threshing the rice.
Rice straw is brought home for animal food in winter.
A girl helps with farming work after hours at school.
A bumper crop is seen in every village of the highland district.
BTA (Photos: baolaocai.vn)