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  • Local wheat varieties in test plants at the Ejere Farming Community Seed Bank in Ejere, Ethiopia. It was built by Ethio Organic Seed Action to help farmers regain traditional local varieties of grain that are better adapted to their location. Seed bank members donate seeds and in turn get seeds from the seed bank. Regassa Feyissa with EOSA is one of the founders and promoters of the seed bank and helps the local farmers. <br />
<br />
The big variety of wheat varieties are important to maintaining biodiversity in the crop and because of how different varieties respond to varying climate and weather patterns from year to year.
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  • The market in Bati is incredibly large, diverse and crowded, being the place where people from the lowlands and highlands of northern Ethiopia meet to exchange their crops, livestock and wares. Something like 20,000 people show up at the Monday market every week. <br />
<br />
Grain is an extremely important commodity, including the all important teff for making injera. Farmers and sellers lay their grain out in bags and piles on plastic sheeting on the ground, and measure it out with tin cans. <br />
<br />
The cattle and camel market is equally large, with pastoral herders from the lowlands, many of them Afar people, coming to sell their livestock to the highland people. The market takes place in one big corral, with buyers and sellers squeezed in amongst the animals.
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  • Farmers in corn field at a combine harvester demonstration at Husker Harvest Days in Nebraska.
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  • Cattle judging at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show in Builth Wells, Wales, UK. <br />
<br />
Judges can be seen carefully inspecting the cattle, looking for the details of breeding that can make the animals better suited for their economic tasks. Generations of farmers (and judges) have been looking carefully for these traits for hundreds of years in order to make the animals more productive.<br />
<br />
The Royal Welsh Agricultural Show is one of the largest shows in in the UK, and showcasing the great agricultural tradition of Wales.  <br />
<br />
Contacts: <br />
Richard Broad<br />
Rare Breeds Survival Trust<br />
 Stoneleigh Park, Nr. Kenilworth,  Warwickshire<br />
UK     DCV8 2LG<br />
Phone:  01834 860886<br />
07772 007399<br />
Email: r.broad@rbst.org.uk<br />
<br />
Sally Renshaw<br />
Rare Breeds Survival Trust<br />
Phone:  +44 024 7669 6551<br />
+44 (0)2476 698764<br />
Email: sally@rbst.org.uk
    MM7753_2010-07-20_8183.jpg
  • Cattle judging at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show in Builth Wells, Wales, UK. <br />
<br />
Judges can be seen carefully inspecting the cattle, looking for the details of breeding that can make the animals better suited for their economic tasks. Generations of farmers (and judges) have been looking carefully for these traits for hundreds of years in order to make the animals more productive.<br />
<br />
The Royal Welsh Agricultural Show is one of the largest shows in in the UK, and showcasing the great agricultural tradition of Wales.
    MM7753_2010-07-20_8183.jpg
  • Cattle judging at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show in Builth Wells, Wales, UK. <br />
<br />
Judges can be seen carefully inspecting the cattle, looking for the details of breeding that can make the animals better suited for their economic tasks. Generations of farmers (and judges) have been looking carefully for these traits for hundreds of years in order to make the animals more productive.<br />
<br />
The Royal Welsh Agricultural Show is one of the largest shows in in the UK, and showcasing the great agricultural tradition of Wales.
    MM7753_2010-07-20_8183.jpg
  • Horse judging at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show in Builth Wells, Wales, UK. <br />
<br />
Judges can be seen carefully inspecting the horses, looking for the details of breeding that can make the animals better suited for their economic tasks. Generations of farmers (and judges) have been looking carefully for these traits for hundreds of years in order to make the animals more productive.<br />
<br />
The Royal Welsh Agricultural Show is one of the largest shows in in the UK, and showcasing the great agricultural tradition of Wales.
    MM7753_2010-07-21_9646.jpg
  • Cattle judging at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show in Builth Wells, Wales, UK. <br />
<br />
Judges can be seen carefully inspecting the cattle, looking for the details of breeding that can make the animals better suited for their economic tasks. Generations of farmers (and judges) have been looking carefully for these traits for hundreds of years in order to make the animals more productive.<br />
<br />
The Royal Welsh Agricultural Show is one of the largest shows in in the UK, and showcasing the great agricultural tradition of Wales.  <br />
<br />
Contacts: <br />
Richard Broad<br />
Rare Breeds Survival Trust<br />
 Stoneleigh Park, Nr. Kenilworth,  Warwickshire<br />
UK     DCV8 2LG<br />
Phone:  01834 860886<br />
07772 007399<br />
Email: r.broad@rbst.org.uk<br />
<br />
Sally Renshaw<br />
Rare Breeds Survival Trust<br />
Phone:  +44 024 7669 6551<br />
+44 (0)2476 698764<br />
Email: sally@rbst.org.uk
    MM7753_2010-07-20_8183.jpg
  • Horse judging at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show in Builth Wells, Wales, UK. <br />
<br />
Judges can be seen carefully inspecting the horses, looking for the details of breeding that can make the animals better suited for their economic tasks. Generations of farmers (and judges) have been looking carefully for these traits for hundreds of years in order to make the animals more productive.<br />
<br />
The Royal Welsh Agricultural Show is one of the largest shows in in the UK, and showcasing the great agricultural tradition of Wales.  <br />
<br />
Contacts: <br />
Richard Broad<br />
Rare Breeds Survival Trust<br />
 Stoneleigh Park, Nr. Kenilworth,  Warwickshire<br />
UK     DCV8 2LG<br />
Phone:  01834 860886<br />
07772 007399<br />
Email: r.broad@rbst.org.uk<br />
<br />
Sally Renshaw<br />
Rare Breeds Survival Trust<br />
Phone:  +44 024 7669 6551<br />
+44 (0)2476 698764<br />
Email: sally@rbst.org.uk
    MM7753_2010-07-21_9646.jpg
  • Farm couple in their wheat filed late in the afternoon in the Palouse of Washington.
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  • Farmers near Lviv, Ukraine grow potatoes  and cabbage, two of the staple crops of small farmers in this rich farming country near the Black Sea.
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  • Farmers near Lviv, Ukraine grow potatoes  and cabbage, two of the staple crops of small farmers in this rich farming country near the Black Sea.<br />
<br />
Farmers is Olexandra Salo (with cabbage)
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  • Rassama Camara in his sorghum field in the village of Siby, Mali. Sorghum in is a major crop in this dry land area, and ICRISAT works with farmers to introduce new varieties with various traits that will improve production. Besides eating the grain, the plant material is used of cattle fodder and even to make fences.
    MM8154_20131031_22898.jpg
  • Center Pivot Irrigation System buried in sand dunes, New Mexico.
    Burried Center Pivot (P).jpg
  • Woman with baby harvesting potatoes  on organic farm in Maine.
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  • The Palouse of Washigton is an area of loess hills built out of wind-blown dust.  High hills are extremely fertile, with exceptional production of dryland wheat.
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  • Welsh pigs are part of the farm display at St. Fagan National History Museum near Cardiff, Wales. The Welsh pig is white, with lop ears meeting at the tips just short of the pig’s nose. It has a long level body with deep strong hams and legs set well apart. George Eglington acknowledged as the founder of the modern Welsh breed described the perfect Welsh pig as “pear shaped” when viewed from either the side or from above. They are still known for their hardiness and ability to thrive under a wide variety of conditions, both indoor and outside.
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  • Drew Rivers on Full Belly Farm, California.
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  • Windmill quilt in Kansas
    Windmill Quilt II.jpg
  • Chicken farm in Arkansas, CAFO
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  • Harvesting and stack oats on the farm of Melaku Yifku in the Seriti Village of the Chacha district north of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<br />
<br />
Workers are cutting the oats by hand with sickles, and pile them behind them as they move up the field, singing as they go. Then the bundles are hauled to the stacks where a man on top arranges them so that the grain heads are to the inside of the stack so they will dry and be protected from rain before being threshed. The man on the top of the stack is Nigussu Kissaye.
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  • Wheat harvest in northern Montana.
    Montana Wheat 2.jpg
  • Planting onions in India.
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  • Cattle feedlot in Kansas, CAFO,
    Cattle Feedlot.jpg
  • Drew Rivers on Full Belly Farm, California.
    USAgriculture_0004.jpg
  • Seed Savers Exchange is one of the oldest and largest heirloom seed conservation organizations in the world. <br />
Since 1975, Seed Savers Exchange members have passed on approximately one million samples of rare garden seeds to other gardeners. The non-profit organization of gardeners is dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds.
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  • Seed Savers Exchange is one of the oldest and largest heirloom seed conservation organizations in the world. <br />
Since 1975, Seed Savers Exchange members have passed on approximately one million samples of rare garden seeds to other gardeners. The non-profit organization of gardeners is dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds.
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  • On the farm of Yacouba Sawadogo near the village of Gourga in northern Burkina Faso (north of Oubhigouya.  Yacouba has been a famous pioneer in using the technique of Zai, small pits dug in the hard soil to promote plant growth, the restore regions once thought lost to desertification in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  • Lorne Nelson raises Highland cattle on his family estate, Kilmaronaig, near Connel, Argyll, Scotland. His is one of the largest herds, now used primarily as breeding stock, with the Highland cattle providing a reliable degree of heartiness when cross bred with other cattle. For Nelson the cattle are part of a diversified farming program that even includes oyster and mussel farming.
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  • Local wheat varieties in test plants at the Ejere Farming Community Seed Bank in Ejere, Ethiopia. It was built by Ethio Organic Seed Action to help farmers regain traditional local varieties of grain that are better adapted to their location. Seed bank members donate seeds and in turn get seeds from the seed bank. Regassa Feyissa with EOSA is one of the founders and promoters of the seed bank and helps the local farmers. <br />
<br />
The big variety of wheat varieties are important to maintaining biodiversity in the crop and because of how different varieties respond to varying climate and weather patterns from year to year. <br />
<br />
Farmers seen in the seed bank with Regassa include Taddesse Retta, chair of the Farmer Conservator Association and Eshetu Badada, the treasurer.
    MM7753_20101030_42091.jpg
  • Farmers near Lviv, Ukraine grow potatoes  and cabbage, two of the staple crops of small farmers in this rich farming country near the Black Sea. Farmer is Olexandra Salo.
    MM8154_20131009_13246-Edit-Edit.jpg
  • Farmers near Lviv, Ukraine grow potatoes  and cabbage, two of the staple crops of small farmers in this rich farming country near the Black Sea.
    MM8154_20131009_13052 - Version 2.jpg
  • Farmers near Lviv, Ukraine grow potatoes  and cabbage, two of the staple crops of small farmers in this rich farming country near the Black Sea.
    MM8154_20131009_13246 - Version 2.jpg
  • Tricia Bross gather vegetables on her Luna Circle Farm near Rio, Wisconsin. Tricia has been a farmer for more than 20 years, and has been a mentor to many market-garden farmers in the upper midwest.
    MM8154_20130916_12034.jpg
  • Rassama Camara in his sorghum field in the village of Siby, Mali. Sorghum in is a major crop in this dry land area, and ICRISAT works with farmers to introduce new varieties with various traits that will improve production. Besides eating the grain, the plant material is used of cattle fodder and even to make fences.
    MM8154_20131031_22898 - Version 2.jpg
  • Harvesting rice in the field around the village of Jogahat, Chunamonhathi, Jessore, Bangladesh.
    MM8154_20131024_20771.jpg
  • Rice threshing in the fields of the village of Jogahat, Chunamonhathi, Jessore, Bangladesh.  The men are using a foot powered thresher to beat the rice off the still-wet rice plants. Rice harvested in the field will be carried back to the village where it will be cleaned and dried.
    MM8154_20131024_20535.jpg
  • Trampeling wheat for the winnowing process in Ethiopia. The oxen help break down the wheat stalks and loosen the grain in the heads to make the winnowing easier.
    MM8154_20131107_24839.jpg
  • Threshing and winnowing wheat in Ethiopia. The grain is thrown in the air to let the wind blow away the chaff, letting the grain fall to the ground.
    MM8154_20131106_24350.jpg
  • Market day in Goro, Ethiopia where women bring grain to sell and farmers bring cattle and other livestock. The cattle market is very busy with sellers and buyers mingling side by side with the animals. <br />
<br />
The grain may be ground into flower or may be used as seed for the next season's crop. They pour the grain to show it off and to further winnow and clean it to make it more valuable. Some were selling corn and chickpeas, but many were selling the typically Ethiopian grain called teff. <br />
<br />
Some choose to sell their grain directly to a broker or middleman rather that sit all afternoon in the hot sun. They can be seen with their bags of grain on a scale, waiting anxiously to see what price they will get for it.
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  • Sheep gathering and sorting in a fank with Bannatyne MacLeod and is wife Jessie on their croft at Cluer on the Isle of Harris, Scotland.  Crofters are small tennant farmers who scrape a precarious living out of the edges of Scotland's lands. This area of Harris is a very rocky example of the rugged lands where crofters farm.
    MM8321_20161015_32901.jpg
  • Sheep gathering and sorting in a fank with Bannatyne MacLeod and is wife Jessie on their croft at Cluer on the Isle of Harris, Scotland.  Crofters are small tennant farmers who scrape a precarious living out of the edges of Scotland's lands. This area of Harris is a very rocky example of the rugged lands where crofters farm.
    MM8321_20161015_33229.jpg
  • Sheep gathering and sorting in a fank with Bannatyne MacLeod and is wife Jessie on their croft at Cluer on the Isle of Harris, Scotland.  Crofters are small tennant farmers who scrape a precarious living out of the edges of Scotland's lands. This area of Harris is a very rocky example of the rugged lands where crofters farm.
    MM8321_20161015_32729.jpg
  • Sheep gathering and sorting in a fank with Bannatyne MacLeod and is wife Jessie on their croft at Cluer on the Isle of Harris, Scotland.  Crofters are small tennant farmers who scrape a precarious living out of the edges of Scotland's lands. This area of Harris is a very rocky example of the rugged lands where crofters farm.
    MM8321_20161015_32690.jpg
  • Sheep gathering and sorting in a fank with Bannatyne MacLeod and is wife Jessie on their croft at Cluer on the Isle of Harris, Scotland.  Crofters are small tennant farmers who scrape a precarious living out of the edges of Scotland's lands. This area of Harris is a very rocky example of the rugged lands where crofters farm.
    MM8321_20161015_32719.jpg
  • Farmer  with the harvest of ground peas that he grows by intercropping with his sorghum in his village of Kolokani, Mali.
    MM8154_20131030_22193.jpg
  • Farmer near Sheng Cun Village in Yuanyang County harvest rice from their terraces to make a meager living.
    MM6977_071020_22391.jpg
  • In the villages around Keita, Niger villagers and the FAO have combined efforts to restore 36,000 sq. kilometers of land that was ravaged by the droughts of the 70's and 80's.  Most of the work has been done by some 10,000 women of the area, returning much of the land to productivity.In all they have planted 18,000,000 trees.<br />
Mariama Abdouleye and her children (left) Idrissa Abdourahmane and (right) Abdoulaye Aboubakar.<br />
<br />
Her sister is Rabi Aboubakar.
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  • Farmer Tammy Tietz with some of their produce from Tietz Farms near Watertown, Wisconsin.
    MM8154_20130915_10965.jpg
  • Anatoliy Bruznitsky with the largest herd of ostriches in Ukraine and Russia, at the Agro-Soyuz farm enterprise in Dnipropetrovsk Province, UKRAINE.
    MM8154_20131014_15711.jpg
  • Wheat field in South Dakota with Ralph Schelske and Sons Harvesting on their own farm in western South Dakota.
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  • Bannatyne MacLeod working sheep on his croft on the Isle of Harris, Scotland
    Farmer on Isle of Harris, Scotland.jpg
  • Harvesting groundnuts (peanuts) in Siby Mali on the farm of Rassama Camara.<br />
<br />
The women are hauling the bundles of dried out plants to big piles where they sit in the shade and pluck the nuts out.  It is a big social occasion as well as being long, hard, dusty work. <br />
<br />
Mariama Keita with her baby
    MM8154_20131031_22675.jpg
  • Drying tree nuts (used for shea butter?) in the village of Bagui Traue, Kolokani, Mali. The nuts are dried over a slow fire, then the meat is ground and pulverized. Also used for the oil in cooking.
    MM8154_20131030_22325.jpg
  • Rice harvest, threshing and winnowing in the field in Bali. Women cut the rice, hand it to other women who thresh it in the basket with the netting around (to prevent the rice being lost) and then other women winnow out the straw and chaff. <br />
 Jro Nyoman Pada  (wearing the hat with leaves in it to keep her cool.<br />
4. Biang Dewa Gede (wearing the white shirt, standing by basket.)<br />
<br />
These women are harvest for another farmer. They will get a bag of rice for every nine they harvest. (One in ten, in other words.)
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  • Farmer in Ireland. Lives near Gleann Cholm Cille, on the northwest coast of Ireland, an ancient sacred valley in the Irish Gaeltacht.
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  • Proud owner of five cows in the village of Patharghata, Rapsha, Khulna, Bangladesh. Besides the five cows he farms rice, fish, vegetables on 3.5 acres of land.
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  • Winnowing rice in the rice paddies among the coconut trees in Luwus village of Bali. The woman is Bu Edi and she was getting one bag of rice (70kg) per each died of one eco size. (100 ecos to the hectare,)
    MM8154_20131018_17152.jpg
  • Harvesting rice in the field around the village of Jogahat, Chunamonhathi, Jessore, Bangladesh.
    MM8154_20131024_20552.jpg
  • Ms. Anwana Begum owns farms and owns a small shop and tea stall. She has a homestead garden, grows taro and green banana for curry. Her village is Shajiali, near Jessore, Bangladesh.
    MM8154_20131024_20290.jpg
  • Winnowing rice in the rice paddies among the coconut trees in Luwus village of Bali. The woman is Bu Jro and she was getting one bag of rice (70kg) per each died of one eco size. (100 ecos to the hectare.)
    MM8154_20131018_17236.jpg
  • Bagui Traue with the harvest of ground peas (?) that he grows by intercropping with his sorghum, seen towering above him. Intercropping allows the farmer to get double crops from the land. Additionally he may plant the same field several times a year.
    MM8154_20131030_22193 - Version 2.jpg
  • Sufia Begum collects and sells milk in the village of Molmolia, Dumvnia, Khulna, Bangladesh. She basically goes around to the various houses, collects excess milk in her vessel, then goes around and sells it by the glass. Part of the village good system.
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  • Stacking oats on the farm of Eshete Girma in the central Shewa region of Ethiopia north of Addis Ababa. The oats are being brought in from the fields on donkeys, then stacked with the grain to the inside of the stack so that it will dry and be protected from rain, before it is threshed. <br />
<br />
Building the stacks is actually a quick affair, taking on half an hour or so.  Seen on top of the stack is Eshete's son and farmer Girma Regassa, directing the operations and building he final cap on the stack. <br />
<br />
The oat variety is an old locally adapted variety called Avena Vaviloviana, named after the famed Russion seed saver N.I. Vavilov who traveled this region in the 1920's doing research and collecting seeds.
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  • Farmer Chala Chaka harvesting teff, the typically Ethiopian grain, near Bato Chrecha in Southern Ethiopia. (Also got Bacho Vioreda as a location.)<br />
<br />
He is using a sickle to harvest the grain by hand, cutting the stalks and then piling it behind him in bundles, which will then be gathered into piles in the fields so that the grain can dry properly. <br />
<br />
The sickle is called a machd. He thinks he will harvest abotu 500 Kg from is half hectare field. <br />
<br />
His wife is bringing him the typical local beer made from grain.
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  • Rice harvest, threshing and winnowing in the field in Bali. Women cut the rice, hand it to other women who thresh it in the basket with the netting around (to prevent the rice being lost) and then other women winnow out the straw and chaff. <br />
<br />
Women seen in the pictures include:<br />
1. Gusti Biang Sukada  (wear the pink shirt and winnowing)<br />
2. Jro Made Ratna (wearing the Micky Mouse jacket and pink scarf)<br />
3. Jro Nyoman Pada  (wearing the hat with leaves in it to keep her cool.<br />
4. Biang Dewa Gede (wearing the white shirt, standing by basket.)<br />
<br />
These women are harvest for another farmer. They will get a bag of rice for every nine they harvest. (One in ten, in other words.)
    MM8154_20131020_18973.jpg
  • On Gesto Farm, the crofting farm of Angus Beaton on the Isle of Skye, which overlooks the dramatic Cuillin Mountains in the background. Angus raises sheep on this small croft, the form of tenant farming particular to the Highlands and Moors of Scotland.
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  • Ms. Anwana Begum owns farms and owns a small shop and tea stall. She has a homestead garden, grows taro and green banana for curry. Her village is Shajiali, near Jessore, Bangladesh.
    MM8154_20131024_20290.jpg
  • Threshing and winnowing wheat in Ethiopia. The grain is thrown in the air to let the wind blow away the chaff, letting the grain fall to the ground.
    MM8154_20131106_24350 - Version 3.jpg
  • Trampeling wheat for the winnowing process in Ethiopia. The oxen help break down the wheat stalks and loosen the grain in the heads to make the winnowing easier.
    MM8154_20131107_24839.jpg
  • Trampeling wheat for the winnowing process in Ethiopia. The oxen help break down the wheat stalks and loosen the grain in the heads to make the winnowing easier.
    MM8154_20131107_24839 - Version 3.jpg
  • Harvesting groundnuts (peanuts) in Siby Mali on the farm of Rassama Camara.<br />
<br />
The women are hauling the bundles of dried out plants to big piles where they sit in the shade and pluck the nuts out.  It is a big social occasion as well as being long, hard, dusty work.
    MM8154_20131031_22675 - Version 2.jpg
  • Drying tree nuts used for shea butter in the village of Bagui Traue, Kolokani, Mali. The nuts are dried over a slow fire, then the meat is ground and pulverized. Also used for the oil in cooking.
    MM8154_20131030_22325 - Version 2.jpg
  • Sufia Begum collects and sells milk in the village of Molmolia, Dumvnia, Khulna, Bangladesh. She basically goes around to the various houses, collects excess milk in her vessel, then goes around and sells it by the glass. Part of the village goods system.
    MM8154_20131025_21461 - Version 3.jpg
  • Rice harvest, threshing and winnowing in the field in Bali. Women cut the rice, hand it to other women who thresh it in the basket with the netting around (to prevent the rice being lost) and then other women winnow out the straw and chaff. <br />
Biang Dewa Gede (wearing the white shirt, standing by basket.)
    MM8154_20131020_18909.jpg
  • Harvesting tomatoes in Bali, Indonesia.
    MM8154_20131018_16970.jpg
  • Harvesting rice in the field around the village of Jogahat, Chunamonhathi, Jessore, Bangladesh.
    MM8154_20131024_20771 - Version 2.jpg
  • Rice threshing in the fields of the village of Jogahat, Chunamonhathi, Jessore, Bangladesh.  The men are using a foot powered thresher to beat the rice off the still-wet rice plants. Rice harvested in the field will be carried back to the village where it will be cleaned and dried.
    MM8154_20131024_20535 - Version 3.jpg
  • Threshing rice in the fields of Bali, beating the bundles of freshly cut rice against boards to get the rice out.
    MM8154_20131020_19373 - Version 2.jpg
  • Winnowing rice in the rice paddies among the coconut trees in Luwus village of Bali. The woman is Bu Jro and she was getting one bag of rice (70kg) per each died of one eco size. (100 ecos to the hectare.)
    MM8154_20131018_17236 - Version 3.jpg
  • Harvesting groundnuts (peanuts) in Siby Mali on the farm of Rassama Camara.<br />
<br />
The women are hauling the bundles of dried out plants to big piles where they sit in the shade and pluck the nuts out.  It is a big social occasion as well as being long, hard, dusty work.
    MM8154_20131031_22527.jpg
  • Family gathered after grinding corn (maize) into meal for cooking in the village of Bagui Traue, near Kolokani, Mali.
    MM8154_20131030_22148.jpg
  • Milking a cow in the village of Jogahat, Chunamonhathi, Jessore, Bangladesh.
    MM8154_20131024_21192.jpg
  • Winnowing rice in the rice paddies among the coconut trees in Luwus village of Bali.
    MM8154_20131018_17152.jpg
  • Ms. Anwana Begum owns farms and owns a small shop and tea stall. She has a homestead garden, grows taro and green banana for curry. Her village is Shajiali, near Jessore, Bangladesh.
    MM8154_20131024_20290 - Version 2.jpg
  • Milking her cow in the communal village pasture is Nina Yavorina. Her cow is Zozulka. As is the custom here Nina has one cow, and assumes the duties of cowherd for all of the villagers cows in her turn. At noon she would milk her cow out in the pasture.
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  • Milking her cow in the communal village pasture is Nina Yavorina. Her cow is Zozulka. As is the custom here Nina has one cow, and assumes the duties of cowherd for all of the villagers cows in her turn. At noon she would milk her cow out in the pasture.
    MM8154_20131011_14302.jpg
  • Proud owner of five cows is Muhammend Moyenuddin Shekh in the village of Patharghata, Rapsha, Khulna, Bangladesh. Besides the five cows he farms rice, fish, vegetables on 3.5 acres of land. He has two daughters. This mixed farming is the norm.
    MM8154_20131025_21893 - Version 2.jpg
  • Harvesting rice in the field around the village of Jogahat, Chunamonhathi, Jessore, Bangladesh.
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  • Threshing rice in a field in Bali. This woman is doing second harvest, trying to get the last of the rice from the bundles that have already been threshed by the women in the background. This is essentially charity gleaning, and she can take home (for free) up to 7kg of the rice. About one big bowl, which might feed her for a couple of days.
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  • Farm women cluster in the shade of a tree in the Wakoro Region of Mali to harvest and pick groundnuts (peanuts) after they have been collected from the surrounding field and piled high in the shade. The activity is a big social occasion with much talk and gossip, much laughter amid the dusty work of picking the peanut pods off the roots.
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  • Harvesting groundnuts (peanuts) in Siby, Mali.
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  • Planting rice in Bali, amid the flooded rice paddy where the rice is pulled from a bundle and stuck into the mud. Seen here is Pak Kompiang.
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  • Winnowing rice in the rice paddies among the coconut trees in Luwus village of Bali. The woman is Bu Edi and she was getting one bag of rice (70kg) per each died of one eco size. (100 ecos to the hectare,)
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  • Anatoliy Bruznitsky with the largest herd of ostriches in Ukraine and Russia, at the Agro-Soyuz farm enterprise in Dnipropetrovsk Province, UKRAINE.
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  • Threshing rice in the fields of Bali, beating the bundles of freshly cut rice against boards to get the rice out.
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  • Megate Worku and his brother Gizehany Worku winnowning barley in the wind near Dalota village in Ethiopia. <br />
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Barley is widely grown in this area of Ethiopia north of Addis Ababa.
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  • Testing for Ug99 wheat stem rust in the field station at Asella, Ethiopia.<br />
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Kulumsa Research Centre, P. O. Box 489, Asella, Ethiopia  Wheat being tested for Ug99 wheat stem rust and other rust diseases at the Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center in Asela, Ethiopia. <br />
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Ug99 is devastating to wheat, leaving the heads with nothing but small, shriveled grain in the otherwise normal looking heads. It was discovered first in Uganda in 1999 and has since been moving east, having recently been found in Yemen.<br />
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The rust is seen as red patches along the stem of the wheat, hence the name.  <br />
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KULUMSA AGRICUTURAL RESEARCH CENTER (KARC) is about 167 km southeast of Addis Ababa. It is located in the Oromiya Regional State in the northeast periphery of the town of Asela, Arsi Zone.
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  • Seed Savers Exchange is one of the oldest and largest heirloom seed conservation organizations in the world. <br />
Since 1975, Seed Savers Exchange members have passed on approximately one million samples of rare garden seeds to other gardeners. The non-profit organization of gardeners is dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds.
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  • Horses, ponies, cobs, and sheep graze the lush rolling hills of mid-Wales in the UK. Breeds are selected and adapted for local conditions with consideration of maximum economy. The hills of mid-Wales profide rich grazing on moderate slopes with plentiful rainfaill and moderate winters.
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