Trabajadores de la caña de azúcar en El Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
Sugar cane workers in Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
Sugar cane loads being carried out of the plantations.
Daytime temperatures can easily reach 38ºC.
You need arm and body protection to avoid cuts from the sharp leaves.
Last swath of sugar cane left to be cut.
They are being replaced by machinery.
Towns are surrounded by an ocean of sugar cane, yet jobs are scarcer everyday because machines are taking over. The town´s economy revolves around sugar cane.