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Growing rice on rock plateau in northern Vietnam

Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 17:13 GMT+7

Farmers have to chisel rock to create hollows and fill them with soil for cultivating rice on the Dong Van rock plateau in the northern province of Ha Giang.

With a lot of efforts and labor, Mong ethnic minority people living in the Ma Pi Leng Mountain have grown their crops that way.

The Mong people have a proverb, “No mountain is higher than the knee of the Mong people,” meaning that they can overcome the hardship and challenges of Nature.

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