On the morning of June 30  local time, Bai Lianyang (2nd R), academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and director of the China-Madagascar "Belt and Road" Joint Laboratory on Hybrid Rice, sang and danced with local farmers to celebrate a bumper harvest in the Alaotra-Mangoro Region, Madagascar. Local farmers hold a grand harvest festival between April and June every year, the rice harvest season of Madagascar. It is worth mentioning that, this year's harvest festival marked the first real bumper harvest that farmers in Ambohijanahary Village, Alaotra-Mangoro Region, had achieved. (Photo/Gu Pengbo and Hu Panpan, Hunan Daily)

On the morning of June 30 local time, local farmers were dressed in brightly-colored clothes, singing and dancing to celebrate the harvest in the Alaotra-Mangoro Region of Madagascar. (Photo/Gu Pengbo and Hu Panpan, Hunan Daily)

On the morning of June 30 local time, local farmers sat on a ridge between fields, waiting for the start of the harvest festival in the Alaotra-Mangoro Region of Madagascar. (Photo/Gu Pengbo and Hu Panpan, Hunan Daily)

On the morning of June 30 local time, Bai Lianyang (2nd R), CAE academician and director of the China-Madagascar "Belt and Road" Joint Laboratory on Hybrid Rice, threshed rice with a local farmer in the Alaotra-Mangoro Region of Madagascar. (Photo/Gu Pengbo and Hu Panpan, Hunan Daily)

On the morning of June 30 local time, experts of the Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences chatted with local farmers in the Alaotra-Mangoro Region of Madagascar. (Photo/Gu Pengbo and Hu Panpan, Hunan Daily)

On the morning of June 30 local time, a local farmer poured hybrid rice into a winnower in the Alaotra-Mangoro Region of Madagascar. (Photo/Gu Pengbo and Hu Panpan, Hunan Daily)

On the morning of June 30 local time, local farmers used a hand-cranked winnower to weed out the harvested rice in the Alaotra-Mangoro Region of Madagascar. (Photo/Gu Pengbo and Hu Panpan, Hunan Daily)

On the morning of June 30 local time, residents cycled along the hybrid rice fields in the Alaotra-Mangoro Region of Madagascar. (Photo/Gu Pengbo and Hu Panpan, Hunan Daily)

On the morning of June 30 local time, hybrid rice ears were full of grains in the Alaotra-Mangoro Region of Madagascar. (Photo/Gu Pengbo and Hu Panpan, Hunan Daily)

On the morning of June 30 local time after the harvest festival, local farmers made delicious meal from hybrid rice in the Alaotra-Mangoro Region of Madagascar. (Photo/Gu Pengbo and Hu Panpan, Hunan Daily)

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Yu Jiangjiang

Chinese source: hunantoday