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Rice…

Quickly on the way back from Kep: rainy season has started. The first rice seedlings are already big enough to be transplanted. It is the hardest part of rice growing: ripping off the rice seedlings from the drenched soil, bundling the stems, tying them together to bring them to a bigger irrigated plot. The bent back is broken, the stems cut the fingers, the muscles ache from pulling incessantly…

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