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Rice Production in Indonesia - Bali

Workers process rice using a machine while nearby women manually recover and separate kernels that remain attached to stalks in a field in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia on September 14, 2023. Manual recovery complements mechanical threshing in rice production, as the crop serves as the staple food for more than half of the world’s population, making its cultivation a critical global process. Photo by Nicola Longobardi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COm

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15th edition of Welcome to the Countryside - Montbeton

Harvesting, threshing, wheat the old-fashioned way. 15th edition of Welcome to the Countryside, the flagship agricultural event in Tarn-et-Garonne, held in Montbeton from September 19 to 21, 2025. Organized by the Chamber of Agriculture, the department s largest agricultural fair expects nearly 15,000 visitors over the course of this weekend dedicated to promoting and discovering our local agriculture. Gourmet market, animal competitions and exhibitions, producers market, entertainment. France, Montbeton, September 20, 2025. Photo by Patricia Huchot-Boissier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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15th edition of Welcome to the Countryside - Montbeton

Harvesting, threshing, wheat the old-fashioned way. 15th edition of Welcome to the Countryside, the flagship agricultural event in Tarn-et-Garonne, held in Montbeton from September 19 to 21, 2025. Organized by the Chamber of Agriculture, the department s largest agricultural fair expects nearly 15,000 visitors over the course of this weekend dedicated to promoting and discovering our local agriculture. Gourmet market, animal competitions and exhibitions, producers market, entertainment. France, Montbeton, September 20, 2025. Photo by Patricia Huchot-Boissier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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15th edition of Welcome to the Countryside - Montbeton

Harvesting, threshing, wheat the old-fashioned way. 15th edition of Welcome to the Countryside, the flagship agricultural event in Tarn-et-Garonne, held in Montbeton from September 19 to 21, 2025. Organized by the Chamber of Agriculture, the department s largest agricultural fair expects nearly 15,000 visitors over the course of this weekend dedicated to promoting and discovering our local agriculture. Gourmet market, animal competitions and exhibitions, producers market, entertainment. France, Montbeton, September 20, 2025. Photo by Patricia Huchot-Boissier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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15th edition of Welcome to the Countryside - Montbeton

Harvesting, threshing, wheat the old-fashioned way. 15th edition of Welcome to the Countryside, the flagship agricultural event in Tarn-et-Garonne, held in Montbeton from September 19 to 21, 2025. Organized by the Chamber of Agriculture, the department s largest agricultural fair expects nearly 15,000 visitors over the course of this weekend dedicated to promoting and discovering our local agriculture. Gourmet market, animal competitions and exhibitions, producers market, entertainment. France, Montbeton, September 20, 2025. Photo by Patricia Huchot-Boissier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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15th edition of Welcome to the Countryside - Montbeton

Elected officials with Marine Hamelet, member of the National Rally, elected representative for the 2nd district of Tarn-et-Garonne, photographed in front of the haystack. Harvesting, threshing, wheat the old-fashioned way. 15th edition of Welcome to the Countryside, the flagship agricultural event in Tarn-et-Garonne, held in Montbeton from September 19 to 21, 2025. Organized by the Chamber of Agriculture, the department s largest agricultural fair expects nearly 15,000 visitors over the course of this weekend dedicated to promoting and discovering our local agriculture. Gourmet market, animal competitions and exhibitions, producers market, entertainment. France, Montbeton, September 20, 2025. Photo by Patricia Huchot-Boissier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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BANGLADESH-NATORE-PADDY-HARVESTING

(240505) -- NATORE, May 5, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Farmers use a threshing machine to harvest the rice in Natore, Bangladesh on May 3, 2024. (Xinhua)

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Chinese hybrid rice experts help Madagascar achieve food security

STORY: Chinese hybrid rice experts help Madagascar achieve food security DATELINE: June 1, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:05 LOCATION: Antananarivo CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center's Africa sub-center 2. various of field of the African sub-center 3. various of local workers and Chinese expert harvesting rice 4. various of local worker transporting bunches of rice to threshing place 5. various of Chinese expert to another threshing place 6. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): HU YUEFANG, Chinese hybrid rice expert 7. various of local workers and Chinese expert preparing to thresh 8. various of local workers working while paddy is drying STORYLINE: In Madagascar, an Indian Ocean island country, the month of May is in the autumn season. Hu Yuefang, a Chinese hybrid rice expert, is working with local farmers to harvest the last batch of hybrid rice at the China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center's Africa sub-center in Mahitsy, a town 35 km northwe

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Intelligent technologies aid rice production, harvest in NE China

STORY: Intelligent technologies aid rice production, harvest in NE China DATELINE: Sept. 26, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:46 LOCATION: HARBIN, China CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): DAI JINRONG, Xinhua correspondent 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): YE ZHIFENG, Deputy general manager of Puyang Farm Co., Ltd. of Beidahuang Group STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): DAI JINRONG, Xinhua correspondent "Now I am in a paddy field in Beidahuang Group, Hegang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. This year, the rice's estimated production of this field can reach around 600 kilograms per mu (0.0667 hectares), which means this farm can really enjoy a rice bumper harvest. Now rice is mature. Sophisticated combines are cutting the rice and separating the grain from the stalks. Let's go and record the whole process." The combine harvester is a versatile machine designed to efficiently harvest a variety of grain crops. It can combine separate harvesting operations including reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnow

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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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Traditional dance depicts rice farming

A woman dressed in a gorgeous kimono and surrounded by other women performs a dance depicting the threshing of rice crops during an annual event in the town of Setouchi on Amami-Oshima Island, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 27, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A scene of threshing

This is one of many stereographs taken during the Taisho Period (1912-1925). It is entitled Thrifty Farmers' Wives Hulling Barley by Pulling It Through Combs. It is a typical scene of a Japanese farming village in the Taisho Period.==Date:1904, Place:Iwakuni, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐8‐0]

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A scene of threshing

Rice plants are cut and threshed with a senba. Since it was customary to dry freshly cut rice plants, and the areas cut are rather spotty, this scene seems to have been staged for the camera.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐15‐0]

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A scene of threshing

Four women and men take turns pounding grains spread on a straw mat to remove husks. The tool is called a donji. A mill visible on the right was used to remove the skin from threshed rice.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Usui Shuzaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number94‐33‐0]

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Threshing with a basket and a mortar

This is a scene of harvesting. A man pounds rice with a vertical pestle in a wooden mill. The rice hulls are removed to make brown rice which is then passed through a winnowing device to remove foreign objects. The woman is creating air flow to blow away the foreign objects.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number84‐5‐0]

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A scene of threshing

After threshing, fine refuse is removed from the hulled rice. A man waves a fan while a woman drops handfuls of hulled rice. In this way the light refuse is blown away.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number78‐99‐0]

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Threshing with an ashitsuki (treading) mortar

This is a scene of a threshing. Harvested rice is hulled using a mortar worked by treading. Not only unhulled rice but also other agricultural products such as sweet potatoes were crushed using this device.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number77‐43‐0]

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Threshing rice

Threshing rice==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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A scene of threshing

Grains are pounded with a revolving machine over a straw mat to remove husks. Bundled ears of rice are visible under the eaves. The shape of the machine suggests that is the type used in the Kanto (Tokyo) area.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number69‐80‐0]

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A scene of threshing

Four women and men take turns striking grains with a tool called a donji to remove husks. After this, a winnowing basket is used to remove foreign particles, and the hulled grains are packed in straw bags. A container is visible under the basket. A mat is hanging behind to prevent grains from scattering.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number69‐75‐0]

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Threshing rice

Threshing rice==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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A scene of threshing

Rice is gathering after threshing, a process in which raked rice is passed through a device to remove bran. After that, a funnel is used to pour the rice into straw bags.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐142‐0]

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A scene of threshing

A scene of threshing==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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A scene of threshing

All the women are engaged in threshing. A straw mat is spread on the ground, and rice is hulled using a threshing machine. A man is carrying bundled ears of rice on a balancing pole.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐117‐0]

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Threshing rice

Farm women are threshing harvested rice with a treading machine. The woman wearing a head towel might be the mother and the other two women her daughters. The location is the garden of the farm house. The threshed rice is drying on mats spread on the ground. Firewood is piled up in the warehouse in the background. The time is Meiji, but the location is unknown.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐23‐0]

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Wheat-threshing

Four men and women face each other and thresh wheat with poles. The use of a thresher is not sufficient for threshing, so this process is necessary.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number29‐17‐0]

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Wheat-threshing

The woman to the right is threshing wheat with a thresher while the man to the left bundles the wheat after threshing. The wheat thresher was used before that for rice, and it was popular during the Genroku era (end of the 17th century).==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number29‐16‐0]

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Wheat-threshing

A man and woman crushing unhulled wheat in a hand mill. One person crushes the threshed wheat while the other helps.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number29‐18‐0]

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Wheat-threshing

Three men are engaged in fusen with a Chinese winnow. Fusen is the process of separating the unhulled wheat from other substances such as chaff using the wind. The man at the right places the wheat in the pail from the opening in the upper part of the Chinese winnow, and the man in the centre turns the fan of the winnow. The man to the left packs the wheat in the straw bag after the process.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number29‐19‐0]

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Wheat-threshing

Four men and women threshing in the garden of a farmhouse. The man at the right edge and the woman at the left edge face each other and thresh wheat using a senbakogi . The man in the center right holds a winnow in his left hand and carries a rake on his shoulder. The woman in the center left holds a bundle of wheat with both hands.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number18‐30‐0]

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Threshing rice

Threshing is done is to separate grains such as rice from the stem and from the chaff. The photo portrays the process of sawing, tapping the rice plant with a pole to separate grain and fusen, or getting rid of straw waste from the unhulled rice.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number18‐26‐0]

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Threshing at a farm house

Threshing in the garden of a farmhouse. Rice plants are spread over the straw mat and two men and a boy thresh rice with poles while another person gathers the rice with a bamboo broom, and two others arrange the rice with farming tools. The woman in the center holds a winnow with both hands, and the child next to her has a baby on his back.==Date:Middle Meiji, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number5‐50‐0]

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