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Myanmar women do the back-breaking task of rice planting as others have to stretch her back Thursday, July 10, 2008 in the delta area of Myanmar
Monday, Jul. 28, 2008

Open quoteIf the weather is good and we are lucky, I think we could get about two-thirds of what we had before.Close quote

  • Burmese rice farmer KO NYI THAUT,
  • lamenting the poor outlook for his rice fields on the Irrawaddy Delta, where crops are still recovering from flooding caused by Cyclone Nargis
Photo: AP | Source: AP