Bags of rice in a storage facility in Ahero. 

Bags of rice in a storage facility in Ahero. 

Bags of rice in a storage facility in Ahero. 

A double handful of rice in a storage facility in Ahero. 

Sacks of rice for sale in the private rice mill in Ahero, after having been processed. 

Sacks of rice for sale in the private rice mill in Ahero, after having been processed. 

Rice being processed at a private rice mill in Ahero where farmers bring the rice harvest for processing and sale. 

A private rice mill in Ahero where farmers bring their rice after the harvest to be processed and sold. 

Farmer women drying rice in the sun in Ahero. 

A farmer woman drying rice in the sun outside her house in Ahero. 

A market in Ahero specializing in the sale of beans, maize and rice. 

A mill worker processing rice in a private rice mill in Ahero where farmers bring the harvest to be processed and sold. 

Left, two female rice farmers and right, a young woman who sells tea and mandazis (a Kenyan pastry) to rice mill workers, enjoying a break from work in the private rice mill in Ahero. 

Left, a woman rice farmer and right, a young woman who sells tea and mandazis (a Kenyan pastry) to rice mill workers, enjoying a break from work in the private rice mill in Ahero. 

Women farmers selling rice in a private rice mill in Ahero where it is brought after the harvest to be processed and sold. 

Women farmers selling rice in a private rice mill in Ahero where it is brought after the harvest to be processed and sold. 

Women farmers selling rice in a private rice mill in Ahero where it is brought after the harvest to be processed and sold. 

Women farmers selling rice in a private rice mill in Ahero where it is brought after the harvest to be processed and sold. 

A market in Ahero specializing in the sale of beans, maize and rice. 

A farmer pushing a wheel barrow full of rice seedlings for transplantation into a prepared rice paddy where they will remain until harvest, some 120 to 130 days later.