No time to grieve for busy farmers

LANZHOU: Farmers in areas battered by the May 12 earthquake have returned to their fields to harvest grain and sow for the new season.

In the village of Zhangjiaheba in Gansu province, they used a section of open ground occupied by tents to thresh wheat and collect grain.

Wang Rangqin, a 42-year-old farmer, said his father died after being hit by flying rocks in the quake, but he had no time to grieve.