1.   The busiest time of the year is the rice harvest, if the crop is good that is.

2.   The ritual is performed in order to thank the Sun Goddess for the rice harvest.

3.   You should go at rice harvest, she said.

4.   The drought -- which Indonesian President Suharto warned last week could lead to famine in some areas -- is putting the next rice harvest in doubt.

5.   They were helping with the rice harvests in other fields.

6.   Outside Katmandu, our route became a path above fields where farmers were threshing their rice harvest.

7.   A drought, blamed on the El Nino weather phenomenon, has also affected rice harvests.

8.   A rice harvest was good this year, but a corn harvest was bad, Kim was quoted as saying.

9.   Another rice harvest is due in June.

10.   As Preecha Saardsorn and Pongsak Baingern report, hapless farmers are quickly discovering that the hardship of economic depression is having a negative effect on some rice harvests.