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					Sugar Cane Harvest
					My experience on an Isan farm during the sugarcane harvest was a great one. The rice harvest had finished in Nov. Now Dec, it was time to cut the sugarcane. These people worked very hard yet were somehow able to keep a smile on their faces. Yes, but this is Thaland, the land of smiles.

			Sugar cane stalks are made into bundles of 10. The top (green) section of the sugar cane is cut off and used for tying the bundles. The workers receive 1 baht (about 3.5 cents US) for each completed bundle. This is such hard work for little money but this is the proud life of the rural farmer.


	Completed stalks ready to be picked up and then loaded in a truck. Next to the factory for processing. dictionary - sugar cane (also sugarcane) noun a perennial tropical grass with tall stout jointed stems from which sugar is extracted. The fibrous residue can be used as fuel, in fiberboard, and for a number of other purposes. • Genus Saccharum, family Gramineae: several species, in particular S. officinarum and its hybrids.

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