Rice is usually grown in the rainy season but it can also be grown in the dry season if there is a sufficient supply of water, or the output will not be good at harvesting time.

 The first stage in the process of rice growing is to prepare land for a nursery. After a few days of rain, the ground is soft enough to be ploughed. So the farmers drive their oxen to the fields and begin ploughing and harrowing. Then they take the rice seed from the sack which have been soaked and germinated a few days before land preparation to sow in the soft, wet soil. Soon pale green shoot push up out of the mud and water of the ricebed. The rain and the warm sunshine make the plants grow quickly. Before long they are big enough to be planted in the field.

The farmers pull the young seedling from the soil and tie them in bundles. This is slow careful work. After that the bundles are carried to the ploughed field and dropped along the row where they are transplanted later. The farmers reach down into the water, make a small hole in the soft soil, put in two or three seedlings, then press the soil around them. A few steps farther on they plant some more seedlings. When the seedlings grow a bit taller, the farmers start spraying the crop with insecticide. During this growing period, rice demands intensive care and full protection such as weeding, fertilizing, and irrigating.

After several months, the rain ends and the rice is ready for harvesting. The yellow rice stalks are cut, tied in bundles, and put in the sun to dry, later they are spread on the threshing floor. The farmers drive the oxen back and forth over the stalks to loosen the grain from them. The stalks can also be threshed by hand or foot. Then the grains of rice are gathered and winnowed afterwards. Finally the grains are carried in ox-cards to the barn to be stored.