Although mechanization has spread throughout the fields across the country, people in the border area of Xa Xia hamlet (My Duc ward, Ha Tien city, Kien Giang) still harvest rice in the traditional way.
This is a popular form of rice harvesting among wet rice farmers since ancient times with a very simple process, farmers cut rice by hand and then thresh the seeds with a rice drum. Many people think that this form of rice harvesting is extinct, so the images recorded in Xa Xia are considered rare.
Below are some pictures of rudimentary rice harvests. of people at the Ha Tien – Cambodia border recorded by reporters:
< figure class="image align-center" contenteditable="false"> To have a fulcrum to thresh the rice grains from the rice stalks, there must be a ladder in the basket. The ladder is made from 2 pieces of old and curved bamboo to make vertical bars to hang on the bamboo frame, while the horizontal bars are made of hard old bamboo (Photo: Bao Ky).
