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16 MARCH 2006 - KAMPONG CHAM, KAMPONG CHAM, CAMBODIA: Harvesting rice by hand using a scythe to cut the rice stalks near the city of Kampong Cham on the Mekong River in central Cambodia. Almost every part of the rice plant is used in Vietnam and Cambodia. The rice grains are eaten, the stalks are fed to livestock as hay and the husks are burned for fuel. The ash from the husks is then used as fertilizer in the paddies. Rice in this part of Cambodia is still cut by hand. In Vietnam and Thailand, which are larger rice exporters, rice is cut by mechanical harvesters are large industrial farms. Photo by Jack Kurtz / ZUMA Press

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16 MARCH 2006 - KAMPONG CHAM, KAMPONG CHAM, CAMBODIA: Harvesting rice by hand using a scythe to cut the rice stalks near the city of Kampong Cham on the Mekong River in central Cambodia. Almost every part of the rice plant is used in Vietnam and Cambodia. The rice grains are eaten, the stalks are fed to livestock as hay and the husks are burned for fuel. The ash from the husks is then used as fertilizer in the paddies. Rice in this part of Cambodia is still cut by hand. In Vietnam and Thailand, which are larger rice exporters, rice is cut by mechanical harvesters are large industrial farms. Photo by Jack Kurtz / ZUMA Press