In September 2006 GRAIN went to rural Yunnan and Sichuan, two of China's major rice farming areas, to interview farmers about their experience growing hybrid rice. A full report from this trip is available in the January 2007 issue of Seedling: (http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=455) Photos in this photo essay are taken by GRAIN staff, with consent of the subject in most cases, and are free of copyright. You can download the PDF version of the essay