The Sixth Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival fell on Saturday. China Daily photographers earlier traveled across the country and recorded the highlights of the busiest season for farmers.

A reaper harvests rice at a State-owned plantation in Nanzhang county, Hebei province, on Sept 7. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY)

Villagers harvest rice at a plantation that jointly farms fish and rice in Renshou county, Sichuan province, on Sept 6. (PAN JIANYONG / FOR CHINA DAILY)

A farmer harvests lotus roots at a plantation in Xiazhuang village, Taizhou, Jiangsu province, on Sept 7. (TANG DEHONG / FOR CHINA DAILY)

Farmers unload fresh chili peppers for drying from a tractor in Gaotai county, Gansu province, on Sept 13. (WANG JIANG / FOR CHINA DAILY)

A worker shows sorghum just threshed in Youyang Tujia and Miao autonomous county, Chongqing, on Sept 11. (HE YI / FOR CHINA DAILY)

Farmers thresh newly harvested rice at Banqiao community in Jinsha county, Guizhou province, on Sept 8. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY)

A farmer sorts newly harvested tangerines on a truck in Congjiang county, Guizhou province, on Sept 17. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

A worker dries this year's yield in Shexian county, Anhui province, on Sept 18. (SHI YALEI / FOR CHINA DAILY)

A farmer harvests prunes at his orchard in Nanqu village in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, on Sept 5. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY)