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The chances are about 586.7 trillion to one that when you eat a bowl of rice this summer there'll be one kernel in it that will have been planted by Joanna.

In our never-ending struggle to stay off the tour circuit we ended up here. I don't know who was having more fun, us or the people we were 'helping'.

The soil underfoot is clayey and slippery, the water warm and muddy. The delta is fertile, and rice, a very labor intensive crop, is everywhere - 3 out of every 4 Vietnamese have jobs that are in some way connected to rice.