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Women work in rice farms at Thiba H2 Mwea section. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

As the golden sun slowly sinks into the horizon, casting a mesmerising spell over the lush plains, swarms of weaver birds flap to their nests to await a brighter tomorrow.

But just before the last rays of the sun are swallowed by the fast approaching darkness, 70-year-old Samuel Kathioni resignedly slips into his battered gumboots.