Daily Photo – Threshing About

A man feeds rice into a threshing machine to separate the grains from the stalks in a rice paddy off the Li River near Guilin, in China.

I took today’s photo, Threshing About, from a boat, steaming down the Li River in China. I’m not sure who had the harder job as the stalks of rice were being cut with a hand scythe by a woman I assumed to be this man’s wife. I know nothing about rice farming, despite the city of Katy, TX, where I now live, being known for its rice harvest (now a receding memory as ever more fields are turned over to housing). I wonder how much rice the bundle of stalks this man is holding would yield?

A man feeds rice into a threshing machine to separate the grains from the stalks in a rice paddy off the Li River near Guilin, in China.
A man feeds rice into a threshing machine to separate the grains from the stalks in a rice paddy off the Li River near Guilin, in China.

January 13, 2016
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