Old man carries bundles of straw up hill to Khokana in the Kathmandu valley Nepal
These farming terraces have just yielded a crop of rice Here a local man carries fodder up to his village almost disappearing under the load Nepal is one of the poorest developing countries in the third world and subsistence farming still takes place throughout the Kathmandu valley and even within the capital itself Khokana is a medieval Newar town lost in time He seems camouflaged against the terraces of stubble This was taken in October 2004 late summer early autumn Rice is a staple diet and grown under labour-intensive traditional manual methods
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