Most of the rice fields in My Duc, some 40 kilometres from Hanoi city centre, have ripened.
Local farmers hire machines for VND120,000 (USD5.10) for every 360 square metres.
My Duc has produced 7,451.3 hectares for the spring season rice harvest.
Farmers in My Duc and more widely across Vietnam no longer have to harvest rice manually.
To Dang Thu from Hop Tien Commune said that his family have 3,600 square metres of rice. The average output of every 360 square metres is 260 kilos. He often sells rice for VND650,000 for every 100 kilos in the fields.
People dry their rice on a road located by their fields.
Straw is no longer used for cooking, instead they burn the rice stubble in the fields.
After the harvest season, chicken and ducks are taken to fields to pick up scattered rice.
