Laborers and Agriculture in Asia

Images of laborers working in various agricultural and port settings, showcasing daily life and rural industry in Southeast Asia. Bright skies and earthy tones dominate the scenes.

Husband and wife threshing rice harvest by leaving it on the road for traffic to drive over, Koraput district, Orissa (Odisha), India, Asia

The mudbrick production in the Bandiagara area in Mali, West Africa: straw is being mixed into the wet dirt (clay).

Laborers at port, Dacca, Bangladesh.

Worker arranging bricks at the brick factory in a village of Sangli, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

MYANMAR - JANUARY 6, 2014: Unidentified Burmese peasant working in the field with ox cart. Agriculture in Burma is the main industry in the country, accounting for 60 percent of the GDP and employing some 65 percent of the labor force

Men sitting in yard with lots of timber, China

Charcoal production in a field near Djenne, a town in the Sahel zone in central Mali.

Husband and wife threshing rice harvest by leaving it on the road for traffic to drive over, Koraput district, Orissa (Odisha), India, Asia

Diamond hunters searching for diamonds in a mine with sieves and shovels, near Koidu, Koidu-Sefadu, Kono District, Eastern Province, Sierra Leone, Africa

Gold mining in northeastern Congo.; Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa.

Men in Bangladesh cutting logs. Trees have been cut for the usage of wood to manufacture furniture. Tree felling has been going on for a long time. A recent study by the Bangladesh Institute of Planners (BIP) has revealed that Dhaka only has 7.09 per cent green space and 2.9 percent of wetlands. Bangladesh.

Manual worker collect salt near Mamallapuram,Tamil Nadu,Southeast india,Asia

Diamond hunters searching for diamonds in a mine with sieves, near Koidu, Koidu-Sefadu, Kono District, Eastern Province, Sierra Leone, Africa

A Samburu blacksmith is working at a Samburu village near Samburu National Reserve in Kenya.

Indian family forming bricks made from mud clay at Khore Bricks Factory, Rajasthan, Northern India

Khartoum, boatyard

A worker loading the jute bags containing sugar in the trolley of tractor at the sugar factory in Sangli, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

Workers including women at the brick factory in a village of Sangli, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

A blacksmith preparing sets of tools Dialabougou

Charcoal sellers. South of Tulear. South-western MADAGASCAR.

Cane Rattan furniture be making at Kollidam near Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, South India, India, Asia

UBTEC NGO in a village near Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso. Cooperative leader Cissé Ousseini using cattle manure to produce biogaz.

Minjibir, Nigeria - 27 May 2025: View of a weaver, under a thatched roof in Gidan Gabas village, meticulously working at his loom, crafting vibrant red and white fabric under the bright sky.

Workers at the brick factory in a village of Sangli, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

Recycling of building bricks for more brickmaking, India, Asia

Man chopping elephant grass for dairy cow feed, Uganda, June

Mid adult man weaving a wicker basket, Tamil Nadu, India

Men building Village house near Om beach, Kumta, Karnataka, India Copyright: xManojxNavalkar/DinodiaxPhotox

Family watering and weeding crops, in farmyard with keyhole vegetable garden, bag garden and dairy cow in pen, Rwanda

A farmer plows his field with two oxen and wooden plow in the mountains between Jima and Bonga, Ethiopia.

Muslim shipwrights build a small felucca (a wooden sailing boat used on the Nile in Sudan and Egypt) in the open-air close to the Nile in Omdurman.

Agricuture. Organic vegetable gardens in Tra Que Village. Farmer at work digging the soil with the sovel. Hoi An. Vietnam.

Seeding beans after harvest in Lobogo, Benin.

Africa, Senegal, Dakar. The Pink Lake of Retba. Salt harvesting along the briny lake shore, bagging salt.

Asia, Myanmar, near Bagan. Farmers winnowing peanuts (Editorial Usage Only)

Bee keepers working in a bee farm near a mustards field in a village in Barpeta district of Assam in India on Wednesday 22 December 2021. The bee keeping business is one of the most profitable businesses in India. India has more than 3.5 million bee colonies. Indian apiculture market size is expected to reach a value of more than Rs. 30000 million by 2024

Ivory Coast, Transport, Man Mending Tyre Puncture

Farmer working in a honey producing co-operative in the Masha area of Ethiopia, Africa

Carrot cultivation (Daucus carota sativus), with irrigation basket for farmers, Rwanda, Africa

Nigeria, Farmers in field; Plateau State

Malawi, Bvumbwe Young Offenders Rehabilitation Centre in Thyolo district where young offenders, convicted and remanded live. Carpentry training is part of the rehabilitation. Once released, they will lack tools to continue with the carpentry at home.

Women labourers working, jharkhand, india, asia Copyright: xHarixMahidhar/DinodiaxPhotox

Workers on a construction site shipbreaking Bangladesh

Ploughing of a rice field in Guinea-Bissau 1984

Tribal woman pumping water from hand pump, Nandgaon, Atgaon, Maharashtra, India, Asia India Copyright: xAkellaxSrinivas/DinodiaxPhotox -

Labourers are working at a brick factory on May Day. May 1st is known as International Workers Day, and celebrated in over 80 countries across the world. Agartala. Trupura, India.

Detail forge, hands, iron nails, Unguja, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa

People weave a household basket at Nigeria's largest cane 'village' at Mende in the Maryland District of Lagos. Cane craft in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is thriving amidst an economic downturn which has affected small scale businesses and people's earnings. At the village, dozens of people, including family members and the unemployed are engaged in weaving different household items like tables, baskets, wine carriers, flower pots with cane wood sourced from the swampy Niger Delta region. Lagos, Nigeria.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA, SEPIK RIVER, NEAR ANGORAM, SMALL VILLAGE, SAGO PALM PROCESSING

Two cocoa farmers lay out their cocoa beans on bamboo matting to dry in the sun, Ghana, West Africa, Africa

Man sawing a bamboo Nyaung Shwe in Burma

Dhaka, Bangladesh - 24 January 2021: View of laborers pushing carts laden with bricks against the backdrop of towering brick stacks and a smokestack, creating a scene of toil and industry.

Farmer and local aid worker building keyhole vegetable garden, Rwanda

Rice harvest, Toraja area, Sulawesi, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Metal workshop in Juakali Kamukunji, financed by a loan of 500,000 KS from Opportunity microcredit Nairobi. Kenya.

Cambodia, Kompong Thom, Phnom Prasat Refugee Camp. Refugees In Makeshift Shelter With Table And Cooking Pots In The Foreground.

Panning for gold. North-east MADAGASCAR.

Konso man weaving cloth on his loom; Karat-Konso, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia

Labourers are working at a brick factory on May Day. May 1st is known as International Workers Day, and celebrated in over 80 countries across the world. Agartala. Trupura, India.

Scene of life in an artisanal gold mining site in Sadiola (north-western Mali). Gold attracts several young people from the region (Ghana, Guinea, Burkina-Faso, Senegal, etc.) to its mining sites where the gold panners use rudimentary means for its exploitation. (Photo by: Amadou Keita/Afrikimages Agency/UIG)

On the morning with golden sunlight in the rice fields in rural Thailand, Farmers and their lifestyle of rice farming based on the seasons On the morning with golden sunlight in the rice fields in rural Thailand, Farmers and their lifestyle of rice farming based on the seasons ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/WosunanxPhotostoryx 22052872 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

Minjibir, Nigeria - 27 May 2025: View of a traditional loom in Gidan Gabas village showcasing intricate weaving, with earthen hues contrasting against the bright textiles..

Horticulture female worker watering plantation at the nursery, Masindi, Uganda.

Horticulture female worker watering plantation at the nursery, Masindi, Uganda.

Microfinance client market farming in Savanes province, North Togo.

Foundry and recycling aluminum cans Madagascar

Madagascar. Piles of charcoal and wood on a road at the south tip of Madagascar.

Burmese farmer extracting palm oil using a bullock to grind the palm fruits. Near Bagan in Myanmar (Burma).

Sulfur miners mining sulfur at Ijen Volcano, Kawah ljen, Eastern Java, Java, Indonesia

The mudbrick production in the Bandiagara area in Mali, West Africa: straw is being mixed into the wet dirt (clay).

A skilled wheelwright repairing the wooden wheels of a buffalo cart; Ratapata Village, Badamba, India

Brickworks, Tamil Nadu state, India, Asia

BARPETA, INDIA, NOVEMBER 7: Workers making firecrackers at a workshop for upcoming Diwali or Dipawali festival on November 7, 2023. in Barpeta, India. Diwali is a festival of lights, often involving fireworks, celebrated every year in India. Barpeta village of lower Assam is famous for making handmade traditional firecrackers

TWO WORKERS UNLOADING A TRUCK WITH WOODEN POLES

Women work in construction project in countryside near Udaipur, Rajastan, India

Weighing of Organic Cotton in Maharashtra India

People getting water from a well in a small village near Livingston in Zambia.

Salt worker working on Lake Kasenyi, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Kasenyi, Uganda, Africa

Nigeria, Work, Building Mud Brick House.

Somali workers unload a ship carrying sacks of wheat donated by the European communities at the port of Mogadishu. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Modadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

India, Madhya Pradesh. A village woman stacks clay bricks by hand at a small outdoor factory in rural Madhya Pradesh.

Biriwa, Ghana - 30 March 2022: View of men working on a wooden boat under a makeshift shelter, the raw timber contrasting with the bright sky.

a man mixing concrete, pierre payen, haiti

A local bicycle repair shop, Bassapur village, Karnataka, India Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

Man at work in coral quarry. Rodrigues Island

Men building a new grass roof in a Bedik village, Senegal.

Dhaka, Bangladesh - 15 January 2019: View of workers amidst a cloud of dust, crafting bricks in a brickyard, their silhouettes outlined against stacks of sun-baked clay, under the hazy sky.

Worker sorting organic rice produced in Agoutome, Benin.

Zambia - Charcoal is sold in abundance on Zambia's roadsides, a practice which is a true menace to the forests of the country. South of Lusaka, Zambia.

Removing Water By Hand Pump From A New Well, Nyangwi Village, Nr Mwanza, Tanzania

Water supply through hand pump, Garwa and Latehar, Jharkhand, India Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

agricultural workers winnowing grains , india

Archaic forge, craftsman forging iron nails over an open fire under a roof, Unguja, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa

Dharavi slum, Mumbai, India. (Photo by: Giulio Paletta/UIG)

Somali workers unload a ship carrying sacks of wheat donated by the European communities at the port of Mogadishu. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Modadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

Apprentices planing wood, carpentry and joinery workshop, Matamba-Solo, Bandundu Province, Republic of the Congo

Men in Bangladesh cutting logs. Trees have been cut for the usage of wood to manufacture furniture. Tree felling has been going on for a long time. A recent study by the Bangladesh Institute of Planners (BIP) has revealed that Dhaka only has 7.09 per cent green space and 2.9 percent of wetlands. Bangladesh.

man and woman working in brick factory, Madhya Pradesh, India, Asia Copyright: xHarixMahidhar/DinodiaxPhotox

Miner weighting his baskets full of sulfur rocks from Kawah Ijen Volcano, Java, Indonesia

Bamboo trunks in factory, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia

Village potter forming hand made clay pot on potter´s wheel spinning in his village workshop, near Rayagada, Orissa, India, Asia

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