File:Farmers of forty centuries - Fields of ginger just planted.jpg

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English: Two fields thrown into high ridges, planted to ginger, and covered with straw; ridged and furrowed for drainage, showing the amount of hand labor performed to secure the winter crop, following two of rice. All of this work is done by hand and when the time for rice planting comes every ridge will again be thrown down and the surface smoothed to a water level.
Date published 1911
Source F. H. King, Farmers of forty centuries, 1911, p. 95.
Author Unknown photographerUnknown photographer
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current17:48, 15 August 2019Thumbnail for version as of 17:48, 15 August 20191,485 × 1,567 (559 KB)Bob Burkhardt{{Information |description ={{en|1=Two fields thrown into high ridges, planted to ginger, and covered with straw; ridged and furrowed for drainage, showing the amount of hand labor performed to secure the winter crop, following two of rice. All of this work is done by hand and when the time for rice planting comes every ridge will again be thrown down and the surface smoothed to a water level.}} |date =published 1911 |source =F. H. King, ''Farmers of forty centuries'', 1911,...