myPlanet: Harvest

Rural children take a nap on corn cobs in rural Jiaozhou city, Shandong province, China, on Oct. 4. Autumn harvest season is coming as Chinese farmers begin to reap their crops. China's grain output reached a record high of 589.6 million tons in 2012 and is expected to reach a new record in 2013, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. (Wu Hong/European Pressphoto Agency) #

A Hmong hill tribe woman harvests a rice terrace field at Mu Cang Chai district, northern Vietnamese province of Yen Bai. The World Bank on Oct. 7 lowered its 2013 growth forecast for East Asian developing countries to 7.1 percent and warned that a prolonged US fiscal crisis could be damaging to the region. (Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP/Getty Images) #

A picker working overnight cuts grapes at dawn on the first day of the Beaujolais' harvest on Sept. 24 in the "Moulin a Vent" vineyard, near Chenas, Beaujolais, eastern France. Harvest in Beaujolais region will run until Oct. 20. (Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images) #

Unemployed people gather carrots in the field of farmer Igor Pakush near the village of Malashki, some 40 km (25 miles) northwest of Minsk on Oct. 2. Some unemployed residents help harvest crops on the privately-owned farm, and in turn, receive 80,000 Belarusian rubles ($8.8) and several kilos of carrots at the end of the day as a payment for their work. (Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters) #

A farmer supervises the transporting of corn onto a grain truck in the pouring rain at the annual Husker Harvest Days agriculture fair in Grand Island, Neb., on Sept. 11. (Nati Harnik/Associated Press) #

Local men collect grapes during a harvest near the village of Kachreti, 80 km east of Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sept. 22. Wine is one of the top Georgian export products. (Zurab Kurtsikidze/European Pressphoto Agency) #