Rice planting season in highland terraced fields

When the summer rain comes, farmers in Mu Cang Chai district in the northern province of Yen Bai start planting rice across terraced fields in mountainous areas, creating a natural and vivid scene.

People and nature bustle together

Terraced fields are covered with the green growth of rice.

A H’Mong ethnic minority family in Che Cu Nha preparing seedlings.

Taking water from streams, farmers plough for early plantation.

Higher land is cultivated to await the later arrival of water

Lower fields receive water earlier.

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