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Harvest of jabara in western Japan

KITAYAMA, Japan, Nov. 4 Kyodo - Cropping of jabara, a citrus fruit, begins in the Wakayama Prefecture town of Kitayama, western Japan, on Nov. 10, 2025. (Kyodo)

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Chive Industry - China

An aerial drone photo taken on November 11, 2025 shows villagers taking care of chives in Jueshan Village of Sandu Town in Liuzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Sandu Town has in recent years promoted the standardized and industrialized production of chives, and developed an integrated business system that ranges from planting and processing to sales and service. To date, the planting area of chives in Sandu Town has topped 43,000 mu (about 2,867 hectares, multiple cropping included), with an annual output of approximately 100,000 metric tons. Photo by Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Chive Industry - China

Villagers transfer chive bundles for sale in Jueshan Village of Sandu Town in Liuzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, October 28, 2025. Sandu Town has in recent years promoted the standardized and industrialized production of chives, and developed an integrated business system that ranges from planting and processing to sales and service. To date, the planting area of chives in Sandu Town has topped 43,000 mu (about 2,867 hectares, multiple cropping included), with an annual output of approximately 100,000 metric tons. Photo by Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Chive Industry - China

An aerial drone photo taken on November 11, 2025 shows villagers planting chives in Longxing Village of Sandu Town in Liuzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Sandu Town has in recent years promoted the standardized and industrialized production of chives, and developed an integrated business system that ranges from planting and processing to sales and service. To date, the planting area of chives in Sandu Town has topped 43,000 mu (about 2,867 hectares, multiple cropping included), with an annual output of approximately 100,000 metric tons. Photo by Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Chive Industry - China

Villagers clean harvested chives in Jueshan Village of Sandu Town in Liuzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, October 28, 2025. Sandu Town has in recent years promoted the standardized and industrialized production of chives, and developed an integrated business system that ranges from planting and processing to sales and service. To date, the planting area of chives in Sandu Town has topped 43,000 mu (about 2,867 hectares, multiple cropping included), with an annual output of approximately 100,000 metric tons. Photo by Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Chive Industry - China

Villagers sort harvested chives in Jueshan Village of Sandu Town in Liuzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, October 28, 2025. Sandu Town has in recent years promoted the standardized and industrialized production of chives, and developed an integrated business system that ranges from planting and processing to sales and service. To date, the planting area of chives in Sandu Town has topped 43,000 mu (about 2,867 hectares, multiple cropping included), with an annual output of approximately 100,000 metric tons. Photo by Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Chive Industry - China

Villagers sort harvested chives in Jueshan Village of Sandu Town in Liuzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, October 28, 2025. Sandu Town has in recent years promoted the standardized and industrialized production of chives, and developed an integrated business system that ranges from planting and processing to sales and service. To date, the planting area of chives in Sandu Town has topped 43,000 mu (about 2,867 hectares, multiple cropping included), with an annual output of approximately 100,000 metric tons. Photo by Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harvest of jabara in western Japan

Cropping of jabara, a citrus fruit, begins in the Wakayama Prefecture town of Kitayama, western Japan, on Nov. 10, 2025.

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Ratoon cropping to boost grain yield in east China

STORY: Ratoon cropping to boost grain yield in east China DATELINE: Aug. 21, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:30 LOCATION: NANCHANG, China CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of harvests of ratoon rice STORYLINE: East China's Jiangxi Province has made a breakthrough in the practice of ratoon cropping, as the major grain producer adopts ratoon rice to enhance its grain yield. The yield measurement result released on Sunday indicated the average yield per mu (about 667 square meters) in the early season of the rice ratoon crops reached 905.1 kg, nearing the national standard for super hybrid rice. Ratoon cropping is a rice planting model in which rice crops are able to regrow from the stubble after the first harvest, according to experts. Three plots of land were randomly selected for the test within a demonstration area covering 170 mu in the province's Poyang County, said Wu Wenge, head of the expert panel, adding that additional efforts are underway to cultivate the crop. "Ratoon rice can be harvested twice

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Fukushima tests rice for radioactive matter

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - A man threshes rice cropped from a rice paddy in the town of Tanagura, Fukushima Prefecture, on Sept. 5, 2011, as the Fukushima prefectural government laid open how it tests local rice for radioactive substances, showing to the media the cropping of sample plants for preliminary tests on brown rice.

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CHINA-YUNNAN-HANI TERRACED FIELDS-HARVEST (CN)

(220908) -- YUANYANG Sept. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A villager catches fish at already harvested paddy rice fields in Yuanyang County of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 7, 2022. People of the Hani ethnic group have a history of more than 1,000 years of terracing the ridges for high-yield cropping. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization listed the Hani terraced fields as a world heritage in 2013. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-HANI TERRACED FIELDS-HARVEST (CN)

(220908) -- YUANYANG Sept. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A villager threshes paddy rice at Hani terraced fields in Yuanyang County of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 7, 2022. People of the Hani ethnic group have a history of more than 1,000 years of terracing the ridges for high-yield cropping. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization listed the Hani terraced fields as a world heritage in 2013. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-HANI TERRACED FIELDS-HARVEST (CN)

(220908) -- YUANYANG Sept. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Villagers harvest paddy rice at Hani terraced fields in Yuanyang County of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 7, 2022. People of the Hani ethnic group have a history of more than 1,000 years of terracing the ridges for high-yield cropping. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization listed the Hani terraced fields as a world heritage in 2013. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-HANI TERRACED FIELDS-HARVEST (CN)

(220908) -- YUANYANG Sept. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on Sept. 7, 2022 shows villagers harvesting paddy rice at Hani terraced fields in Yuanyang County of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province. People of the Hani ethnic group have a history of more than 1,000 years of terracing the ridges for high-yield cropping. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization listed the Hani terraced fields as a world heritage in 2013. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-HANI TERRACED FIELDS-HARVEST (CN)

(220908) -- YUANYANG Sept. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on Sept. 7, 2022 shows a part of Hani terraced fields in Yuanyang County of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province. People of the Hani ethnic group have a history of more than 1,000 years of terracing the ridges for high-yield cropping. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization listed the Hani terraced fields as a world heritage in 2013. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-HANI TERRACED FIELDS-HARVEST (CN)

(220908) -- YUANYANG Sept. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on Sept. 7, 2022 shows a villager threshing paddy rice at Hani terraced fields in Yuanyang County of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province. People of the Hani ethnic group have a history of more than 1,000 years of terracing the ridges for high-yield cropping. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization listed the Hani terraced fields as a world heritage in 2013. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-HANI TERRACED FIELDS-HARVEST (CN)

(220908) -- YUANYANG Sept. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial panoramic photo taken on Sept. 7, 2022 shows a part of Hani terraced fields in Yuanyang County of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province. People of the Hani ethnic group have a history of more than 1,000 years of terracing the ridges for high-yield cropping. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization listed the Hani terraced fields as a world heritage in 2013. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-HANI TERRACED FIELDS-HARVEST (CN)

(220908) -- YUANYANG Sept. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial panoramic photo taken on Sept. 7, 2022 shows a part of Hani terraced fields in Yuanyang County of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province. People of the Hani ethnic group have a history of more than 1,000 years of terracing the ridges for high-yield cropping. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization listed the Hani terraced fields as a world heritage in 2013. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-HANI TERRACED FIELDS-HARVEST (CN)

(220908) -- YUANYANG Sept. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Ducks have fun at already harvested paddy rice fields in Yuanyang County of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 7, 2022. People of the Hani ethnic group have a history of more than 1,000 years of terracing the ridges for high-yield cropping. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization listed the Hani terraced fields as a world heritage in 2013. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-HANI TERRACED FIELDS-HARVEST (CN)

(220908) -- YUANYANG Sept. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Villagers harvest paddy rice at Hani terraced fields in Yuanyang County of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 7, 2022. People of the Hani ethnic group have a history of more than 1,000 years of terracing the ridges for high-yield cropping. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization listed the Hani terraced fields as a world heritage in 2013. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-HANI TERRACED FIELDS-HARVEST (CN)

(220908) -- YUANYANG Sept. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial panoramic photo taken on Sept. 7, 2022 shows a part of Hani terraced fields in Yuanyang County of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province. People of the Hani ethnic group have a history of more than 1,000 years of terracing the ridges for high-yield cropping. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization listed the Hani terraced fields as a world heritage in 2013. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)

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Harvest of jabara in western Japan

Cropping of jabara, a citrus fruit, begins in the Wakayama Prefecture town of Kitayama, western Japan, on Nov. 4, 2021.

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Harvest of jabara in western Japan

Cropping of jabara, a citrus fruit, begins in the Wakayama Prefecture town of Kitayama, western Japan, on Nov. 4, 2021.

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Fujiya Hotel,Miyanoshita

This photo appears to be the same as that of catalogue #4103. However, there is a slight difference: a shadow which looks like a person appears to be a tree at the roadside in #4103. It cold be that many photos were taken at the same time. The mountains in the background also look different. The composition of #4103 is an enlargement of #2108, cropping the four sides.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number59‐49‐0]

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Fujiya Hotel,Miyanoshita

This photo appears to be the same as that of catalogue #4103. However, there is a slight difference: a shadow which looks like a person appears to be a tree at the roadside in #4103. It cold be that many photos were taken at the same time. The mountains in the background also look different. The composition of #4103 is an enlargement of #2108, cropping the four sides.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number47‐11‐0]

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Fukushima tests rice for radioactive matter

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - A man threshes rice cropped from a rice paddy in the town of Tanagura, Fukushima Prefecture, on Sept. 5, 2011, as the Fukushima prefectural government laid open how it tests local rice for radioactive substances, showing to the media the cropping of sample plants for preliminary tests on brown rice. (Kyodo)

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Mask-trees, Czech Republic, cloth mask, home made, solidarity, coronavirus epidemic

Mask-trees have been cropping up around the country as a form of solidarity in the days of the coronavirus epidemic. Volunteers are making cloth masks at home and hanging them on maskt-trees for passers-by in need. Mask tree in Doleni Paseky, near Jested, Liberec, Czech Republic, March 22, 2020. (CTK Photo/Radek Petrasek)

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Mask-trees, Czech Republic, cloth mask, home made, solidarity, coronavirus epidemic

Mask-trees have been cropping up around the country as a form of solidarity in the days of the coronavirus epidemic. Volunteers are making cloth masks at home and hanging them on maskt-trees for passers-by in need. Mask tree in Doleni Paseky, near Jested, Liberec, Czech Republic, March 22, 2020. (CTK Photo/Radek Petrasek)

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Mask-trees, Czech Republic, cloth mask, home made, solidarity, coronavirus epidemic

Mask-trees have been cropping up around the country as a form of solidarity in the days of the coronavirus epidemic. Volunteers are making cloth masks at home and hanging them on maskt-trees for passers-by in need. Mask tree in Doleni Paseky, near Jested, Liberec, Czech Republic, March 22, 2020. (CTK Photo/Radek Petrasek)

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Mask-trees, Czech Republic, cloth mask, home made, solidarity, coronavirus epidemic

Mask-trees have been cropping up around the country as a form of solidarity in the days of the coronavirus epidemic. Volunteers are making cloth masks at home and hanging them on maskt-trees for passers-by in need. Mask tree in Doleni Paseky, near Jested, Liberec, Czech Republic, March 22, 2020. (CTK Photo/Radek Petrasek)

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Mask-trees, Czech Republic, cloth mask, home made, solidarity, coronavirus epidemic

Mask-trees have been cropping up around the country as a form of solidarity in the days of the coronavirus epidemic. Volunteers are making cloth masks at home and hanging them on maskt-trees for passers-by in need. Mask tree in Doleni Paseky, near Jested, Liberec, Czech Republic, March 22, 2020. (CTK Photo/Radek Petrasek)

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Mask-trees, Czech Republic, cloth mask, home made, solidarity, coronavirus epidemic

Mask-trees have been cropping up around the country as a form of solidarity in the days of the coronavirus epidemic. Volunteers are making cloth masks at home and hanging them on maskt-trees for passers-by in need. Mask tree in Doleni Paseky, near Jested, Liberec, Czech Republic, March 22, 2020. (CTK Photo/Radek Petrasek)

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Mask-trees, Czech Republic, cloth mask, home made, solidarity, coronavirus epidemic

Mask-trees have been cropping up around the country as a form of solidarity in the days of the coronavirus epidemic. Volunteers are making cloth masks at home and hanging them on maskt-trees for passers-by in need. Mask tree in Doleni Paseky, near Jested, Liberec, Czech Republic, March 22, 2020. (CTK Photo/Radek Petrasek)

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Harvest of luxury Yubari Melon

Cropping of Yubari melons begins on May 24, 2020, in Yubari, Hokkaido. The harvest of the popular, luxury fruit is expected to reach a peak in early to mid-July. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Harvest of luxury Yubari Melon

Cropping of Yubari melons begins on May 24, 2020, in Yubari, Hokkaido. The harvest of the popular, luxury fruit is expected to reach a peak in early to mid-July. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Harvest of luxury Yubari Melon

Cropping of Yubari melons begins on May 24, 2020, in Yubari, Hokkaido. The harvest of the popular, luxury fruit is expected to reach a peak in early to mid-July. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo