This brings out the whole valley in force, everyone bending low with small sickles to cut the stalks, then stacking these in sheaves for fuel or thatch after the rice is threshed.
The rice is soaked, boiled and consumed but, never threshed 
mnli hypothesis: The rice is soaked, boiled and consumed but, never threshed  premise: This brings out the whole valley in force, everyone bending low with small sickles to cut the stalks, then stacking these in sheaves for fuel or thatch after the rice is threshed.