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India - Kerala - Preparation for planting rice

Indonesia - Sulawesi - Rice fields at Sinjai

India - Kerala - region Anjegno - Rice transplanting

The legends are only available in German, French or Spanish
Au fond de chaque vallée côtière coule une rivière qui, grâce à l'irrigation artificielle des champs, rend possible l'agriculture. Mais tout autour s'étend le désert dans lequel ne croissent que des cactus. - Vallée de la rivière Jequetepeque, sur le chemin de Cajamarca. - 1969

The legends are only available in German or Spanish
Die von der Westkordillere herabkommenden Flüsse queren auf ihrem Lauf zum Pazifischen Ozean die peruanische Küstenwüste. Rund vierzig Kastentäler mit breiten Böden und steilen Rändern sind in die sanft zum Meer abfallende Wüstentafel eingesenkt. Mit ihren von Baumreihen gesäumten Wein-, Luzerne und Gemüsefeldern bilden sie grüne Oasen in einer kahlen Umgebung. Die in jüngerer Zeit am Río Jequetepeque angelegten Reisfelder, auf denen Indios mit Ochsengespannen pflügen, erinnern an asiatische Vorbilder. - 1976

In the valley of the Río Jequetepeque, on the way to Cajamarca, the terraces are being prepared for the planting of rice. – 1976

This market vendor in Yogyakarta offers her customers several varieties of rice, eggs and bird cages. The importance of rice in Asia is well known. It is not only the staple food of the poor; in Indonesia, there is hardly a dish that does not include a bowl of rice on the table. – 1990

A rice table, as served for two people at lunchtime in restaurants on the Sri Lankan coast. The traditional meal consists of nine dishes: white rice at the top left, fried rice below it, and next to it, from top to bottom, bowls of papad bread, vegetable soup and boiled tuna in curry sauce, followed by beetroot and green mokunuwan leaves mixed with coconut flakes. The two bowls on the right contain aubergines and yellow lentils. - 1990