(Baonghean.vn) - Summer, harvest season has come! The picture of Kim Lien - Nam Dan countryside seems more brilliant with the pink color of lotus and the yellow color of ripe rice. The fragrant scent of lotus blends with the scent of rice, the smell of smoke from burning fields blends with the wind, permeating the "taste" of the homeland.
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| Summer has come to Kim Lien. Pink lotus flowers have bloomed in the village pond. The golden sunlight spreads across the fields... Photo: Thanh Chung |
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| Summer is also the time when people in Uncle Ho's hometown rush into the happy season. Every household mobilizes all their labor to go to the fields to harvest. Photo: Thanh Cuong. |
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| Remembering Uncle Ho's advice when she returned to her hometown, Kim Lien always took care of production and planted food crops. With favorable weather and rain, farmers were happy with a bountiful harvest. Photo: Thanh Cuong. |
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| Promoting production towards agricultural modernization, Kim Lien has many large specialized fields. Combine harvesters are increasingly popular, freeing up human labor. Photo: Thanh Cuong. |
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| The heavy rice grains are carried home by truck to the drying yards. The golden rice grains are soaked with sweat, hard work and worries. Photo: Thanh Cuong. |
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| After finishing the harvesting and drying stages, the hard-working farmers rush to the fields to roll up straw and bring it home to pile up for the buffalo and cows to store on rainy days. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
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| Families that do not raise cattle burn straw in the middle of the field to help the land feel less "tired" after a season of painstakingly growing rice. The smell of smoke from burning rice in the fields every afternoon, wafting with the wind, into every corner of the countryside. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
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| . “After the potatoes are gone, we sow sesame again/ We don’t let the land rest, we don’t stop our hands.” After the harvest, Kim Lien fields are plowed again to prepare for the next season... Photo: Thanh Cuong |
Thanh Cuong
