HARVEST - MA THU HOCH
HARVEST
HARVEST MA THU HOCHSeptember 11, 20121Auto
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HarvestHarvest is a time of plenty, when the season's hard work
is rewarded by bounty. Many of the rhythms of our lives are shaped
by the gathering of crops, even if most of us now live in cities.
Worldwide, festivals and rituals mark the passage from growing
season to harvest, with indigenous and popular practices making
fall in the Northern Hemisphere a festive time. This year sees a
reduced harvest in much of the world as extreme weather decimated
many regions. Half of the United States is in prolonged drought, as
well as much of Europe. In India, the monsoon is 20 percent off the
annual average. Food prices are expected to rise by 2013 as demand
taxes supplies, and later the price rises will transfer to the meat
industry as costs of feed for livestock are passed on. Gathered
here are images of farms industrial and traditional, crops critical
and obscure, and harvest festivals among drought and bounty. --Lane
Turner(41 photos total)Source : www.boston.comSeptember 11,
20122Auto
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A rainbow shines in the background of a sun-bathed wheat field
east of Walla Walla, Wash. on July 16, 2012. High temperatures near
100 degrees have turned fields to gold as harvest draws near. (Jeff
Horner/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin/Associated Press)September 11,
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Swiss farmer Kari Gisler carries a bundle of hay during wild
haying on the mountain Rophaien in Flueelen, Switzerland on August
20, 2012. The tradition of wild haying in Central Switzerland dates
back around two hundred years on steep hillsides which cannot be
reached with animals. (Michael Buholzer/Reuters)#September 11,
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Workers harvest wild blueberries at the Ridgeberry Farm in
Appleton, Maine on July 27, 2012. Maine is America's top wild
blueberry state. (Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press)#September 11,
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Felix Munk, head of the beekeeper organization Stadtimker, holds
a honeycomb with bees in Vienna on July 11, 2012. Stadtimker is one
of a growing number of urban beekeepers' associations who are
trying to encourage bees to make their homes in cities as
pesticides and crop monocultures make the countryside increasingly
hostile. (Lisi Niesner/Reuters)#September 11, 20126
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Workers collect white grapes in the vineyards of the famed
Chateau Haut Brion, a Premier Grand Cru des Graves, during the
grape harvest in Pessac-Leognan, near Bordeaux, France on September
4, 2012. (Bob Edme/Associated Press)#September 11, 20127
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A seasonal worker from Poland picks apples on July 31, 2012 at
the Obsthof Herzberg farm in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany, near the
Polish border. (Patrick Pleul/AFP/GettyImages)#September 11,
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Farmers weed fields in Satnapur Village, India on June 28, 2012.
Indians living in rural areas on average eat 2,020 calories a day,
against a global average of 2,800 and 11 percent less than they did
in 1973, according to government and United Nations' data. (Sanjit
Das/Bloomberg)#September 11, 20129
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Cocoa farmers work at Sekyere, Ghana on July 25, 2012. (Yaw
Bibini/Reuters)#September 11, 201210
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Migrant workers harvest watermelon from an irrigated farm field
in a drought-stricken region of Indiana on July 18, 2012 near
Vincennes, Indiana. Indiana, part of the corn and soybean belt in
the middle of the nation, is experiencing one of the worst droughts
in more than five decades. Indiana is one of the nation's largest
producers of watermelon. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)#September 11,
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Peul herdsmen stand by their cows in the green sandy plains near
Bermo, Niger on July 16, 2012. When the first rains come, they head
north toward the Sahara desert, where the grass is said to be
saltier, packed with minerals. They time their movements according
to the clouds, waiting for the second major downpour, before making
a U-turn to head back to the greener south. If they miscalculate,
they can end up stranded. As the grass turns yellow, their animals
become too weak to walk. (Jerome Delay/Associated Press)#September
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Women sing as they celebrate the first day of the harvest
festival in the village of Hrgovi, Bosnia on July 14, 2012. (Amel
Emric/Associated Press)#September 11, 201213
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A farmer ties red chilies before hanging them to dry in Khokana,
Nepal on August 11, 2012. (Niranjan Shrestha/Associated
Press)#September 11, 201214
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A spiritual guide known as an "Amauta," pauses during a ceremony
in honor of the "Pachamama," or Mother Earth, on El Cumbre mountain
on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia on August 30, 2012. According
to local agrarian tradition, Mother Earth awakens hungry and
thirsty in August and needs offerings of food and drink in order
for her to be fertile and yield abundant crops. (Juan
Karita/Associated Press)#September 11, 201215
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People walk inside a cave during traditional annual prayers for
rain, at the Djevojacka cave, near Kladanj, Bosnia on August 26,
20012. (Amel Emric/Associated Press)#September 11, 201216
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Villagers stand on a crater of Mount Bromo as they wait for
sunrise during the annual Kasada festival in Indonesia's East Java
province August 4, 2012. Villagers and worshippers throw offerings
such as livestock and other crops into the volcanic crater of Mount
Bromo to give thanks to the Hindu gods for ensuring their safety
and prosperity. (Sigit Pamungkas/Reuters)#September 11, 201217
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Men compete during a buffalo race in Jembrana, Bali on August
12, 2012. More than three hundred of buffalos participated in the
"Mekepung" (buffalo race), a thanksgiving ritual after a successful
harvest. (Firdia Lisnawati/Associated Press)#September 11,
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A farmer joins a traditional bull race in the southern Bavarian
village of Muensing near Lake Starnberg on August 26, 2012.
(Michael Dalder/Reuters)#September 11, 201219
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Dancers in body paint wait to take part in a performance at the
start of the annual harvest festival of "Onam" in Kochi, India on
August 21, 2012. (Sivaram V/Reuters)#September 11, 201220
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Candidates for the Miss Water Lily pageant pose in their gowns,
made from dried water lily stalks, during the Water Lily Festival
in Las Pinas city, Philippines on July 19, 2012. Residents harvest
water hyacinths and dry the stalks, which become raw material for
producing baskets, trays, slippers and other functional and
ornamental items. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)#September 11, 201221
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Pigs race at an exhibit on August 26, 2012 at the Nebraska State
Fair in Grand Island, Nebraska. With Nebraska still in a state of
severe drought and farmers in dire straights, thousands of people
visited the fairgrounds to celebrate the state's rich agricultural
and rural traditions. (John Moore/Getty Images)#September 11,
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An employee works on the production line at the Daehan Flour
Mills Co. plant in Incheon, South Korea, on August 29, 2012. South
Korea is Asia's second-biggest grain importer. (SeongJoon
Cho/Bloomberg)#September 11, 201223
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A scientist prepares to scan roots for a gene at a lab at the
International Rice Research Institute in Los Banos, Philippines on
August 30, 2012. A team of scientists from the IRRI say they have
discovered a gene which increases grain production by 20 percent,
which will help poor rice farmers grow more rice. (Cheryl
Ravelo/Reuters)#September 11, 201224
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6th generation farmers Jud Vaught (left) and his brother Bill
Kirklin connect an irrigation system in their cornfield on July 20,
2012 near Whiteland, Indiana on a farm founded by their family in
1835. The corn and soybean belt in the middle of the nation is
experiencing one of the worst droughts in more than five decades.
Indiana was the nation's fourth largest corn producer in 2011.
(Scott Olson/Getty Images)#September 11, 201225
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Darren Becker sifts through arid topsoil under a ruined crop on
the family farm on August 24, 2012 in Logan, Kansas. Like many
Kansas farmers who's profits have been wiped out by the record
drought, the Beckers are working hard to hang on to their farm,
which has been in their family for five generations. (John
Moore/Getty Images)#September 11, 201226
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Corn damaged by severe drought rots on a farm near Bruceville,
Indiana on August 16, 2012. (Saul Loeb/AFP/GettyImages)#September
11, 201227
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A man runs from fire near of Kalamoti, Greece on August 19,
2012. Scores of mastic orchards on the Greek island of Chios were
destroyed in a forest fire. (Icon/AFP/GettyImages)#September 11,
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A farmer walks through a dry paddy field on the outskirts of
Jammu, India on July 24, 2012. Rains have fallen at least 22
percent below the national average. (Channi Anand/Associated
Press)#September 11, 201229
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A combine harvests corn in a field near Coy, Ark. on August 16,
2012. (Danny Johnston/Associated Press)#September 11, 201230
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A tractor harvests hay on a field near Hildesheim, Germany on
August 18, 2012. (Nigel Treblin/dapd/Associated Press#September 11,
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A combine cuts rice in a field near Tucker, Ark. on August 16,
2012. Arkansas rice farmers planted 1.135 million acres in 2012, 59
percent of the nation's rice crop this year. (Danny
Johnston/Associated Press)#September 11, 201232
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A farmer walks past rice paddy fields at Khokana, Nepal on
August 19, 2012. (Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyImages)#September 11,
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A farmer walks through a paddy field to his home in the village
of Khokana, Nepal on September 4, 2012. (Prakash
Mathema/AFP/GettyImages)#September 11, 201234
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Farmers wait for customers as they gather alongside corn-laden
trucks at the market in Lahore on September 3, 2012. (Arif ALIArif
Ali/AFP/GettyImages)#September 11, 201235
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Vendors wash their vegetables in a river at La Visite National
Park, Haiti, preparing them for sale at a street market in
Port-au-Prince on August 16, 2012. (Dieu Nalio Chery/Associated
Press)#September 11, 201236
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A worker repairs a tractor for farmer Aye Thant in Kyaiklat,
Myanmar on May 24, 2012. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)#September 11,
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A stork walks across a field as a combine harvests grain outside
of Vilnius, Lithuania on July 27, 2012. Lithuanian farmers expect a
better than average crop this year. (Petras
Malukas/AFP/GettyImages)#September 11, 201238
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A worker harvest hops in Rocov, Czech Republic on August 30,
2012. Their hops are highly sought after by beer brewers and are
exported to about 80 countries, but drought has reduced the yield
by 25 percent. (Petr David Josek/Associated Press)#September 11,
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Winter wheat is loaded from a combine harvester on August 12,
2012 in Hanover-Wuelferode, Germany. (Julian
Stratenschulte/AFP/GettyImages)#September 11, 201240
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Workers use a front-loader to move wheat grain into a truck at a
storage depot in Krasnodar, Russia on July 13, 2012. (Andrey
Rudakov/Bloomberg News)#September 11, 201241
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Cereals fall from a transportation wagon as an employee opens
the storage hatches on a rail unit in Val de la Haye, France on
June 23, 2012. (Balint Porneczi/Bloomberg News)#September 11,
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Wheat grain is poured into a truck on a farm in Great Wilbraham,
United Kingdom on July 18, 2012. (Simon Dawson/Bloomberg)#September
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