Workers of the Issan Ricefields 

The harvesting of rice in the traditional manual method of using the sickle, this is family scale self-subsistence farming captured at the village of Ban Donwai, Udon Thani, N.E. Thailand.

Most people would hire somebody using a powered tool, which will get the job done much quicker, it is a time sensitive operation, as it is more difficult to cut when the seeds grows heavy and the stalks starts bending over.