Hue city border guards help people harvest rice

The rice fields in Cu'r Xo are located between hillsides, with narrow access roads, many of which are steep and slippery. When the rice ripens, local people mainly have to harvest it manually.

After identifying households facing a shortage of manpower, the Border Post of A Dot border gate assigned officers and soldiers to support local residents in the fields. For families short of manpower, the presence of border guards made harvesting and transporting the rice more convenient.

Border troops and local forces help residents harvest rice.

Troops and people use sickles to cut rice stalks that have fallen over.

Local people carry freshly-harvested rice bundles for troops to take to the field edge.

Troops carry rice from the fields to the field edge.

Harvested rice is gathered at the edge of the field for threshing.

Border guards and people thresh rice with a machine at the collection point.

Collecting and packing rice into bags after threshing

Transporting bags of rice to local people’s homes

Translated by Quynh Oanh