Members of the households in the project area do many of the tasks together in rice growing, though men are more likely to do some of the tasks, and women more likely to do others. Men are mainly responsible for plowing and the preparation of seedbeds and fields. Men are generally responsible for handling the draft animals for these tasks. Women are mainly responsible for transplanting and weeding, while water control is men’s work. Everyone joins in harvesting. Threshing is usually a male task while women are responsible for carrying the sheaves of rice to the threshing place.