Out working the land
A woman laughs as she chats with a friend while taking a break from harvesting wheat in Kathmandu.
Work done by small-scale farmers like herself in Nepal can be hard, involving long hours of labour in the baking sun to cut and bring in the ripened crop by hand. Nevertheless, many can be found joking and singing with one another while out on their small plots of land, harvesting the grain that will support them over the coming year.
A woman hoes the earth in her small patch of land.
A farmer works in her field.
A woman smiles as she speaks to a friend.
A farmer brings in her crop next to a tumbledown house.
A man works in his field.
A woman harvests wheat.
A farmer holds a bunch of freshly cut wheat stalks.
A woman drinks water as she takes a break from cutting the crop.
A farmer carries bundles of wheat during the harvest.
Wheat flies up around a farmer's hands.
A woman helps separate out the grain.
A farmer dries stacks of wheat on the ground near his field.
