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Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam
Photographs and text tell the story of rice and rural life in Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on the highlanders, or Montagnards.
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From field to bowl
In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 11
Harvested rice grains generally are stored in their husks until needed for food. At that time, the husks must be removed either in large stone or wood mortars with pestles wielded by farmers, or by the kind of mechanical threshing machine seen here. Such machines...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Threshing machine ejects rice into basin at mill near Mai Chau
Threshing machine ejects rice into basin at mill near Mai Chau
The spout of a threshing machine ejects rice into a red-rimmed white basin at a mill near Mai Chau. A sack to carry a large load of rice is visible at left. Harvested rice grains generally are stored in their husks until needed for food. At that time, the...
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