Life cycle of rice grain in Mekong Delta

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Germinated rice seeds ready for sowing. (Photo: VNA)
A farmer transports rice seeds by motorbike to the field for sowing (Photo: VNA) 
Sample rice seed panicles carefully stored at a farmer’s home in Can Tho city. (Photo: VNA)
Before sowing, fields are ploughed and levelled to create a fine, even seedbed. (Photo: VNA)
Most rice fields in the Mekong Delta have been sown, with only a few plots still being transplanted by hand. (Photo: VNA)
As rice panicles bend under the weight of ripening grains and turn golden, the harvest season begins. (Photo: VNA)
Farmers with large-scale production capacity may store harvested rice in warehouses and wait for better market prices before selling. (Photo: VNA)
Most harvested rice is sold fresh at the field, where traders collect and transport it by boat. (Photo: VNA)
Finished rice ready for sale. (Photo: VNA)
Life cycle of rice grain in Mekong Delta
Season after season, farmers across the Mekong Delta, Vietnam’s largest rice-producing region, cultivate rice from sowing to harvest, sustaining a centuries-old agricultural tradition that blankets the landscape in vast expanses of lush green and golden fields.