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Rice terraces in Indonesia
The Leprosy Mission International- Digital Images
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Nepal; Kathmandu Valley, 1986. The Kathmandu Valley is situated in Nepal's Hill Region ('Pahar' in Nepali - altitutides 1000-4000 metres), and is the country's most fertile and urbanised area as well as being its political and cultural centre. The hills, sculpted into a vast complex of terraces, are extensively cultivated. Hill farmers produced food staples, mostly rice and corn, although this is still a food-deficit area. Other crops include wheat, millet, barley, sugarcane, tobacco, potatoes and oilseed. The climate is mild with summer temperatures reaching 30 degrees C and winter temperatures about 10 degrees C. The most common trees are oak, alder, jacaranda and rhododendron.
Carole Reeves- Pictures
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A man ploughing with oxen; in the background, women tending the paddy fields. Gouache drawing, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 728041iPart of: Indian practitioners of crafts, trades and professions. Gouache paintings, 18--.- Pictures
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Indian agriculture and crops. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 31953i- Digital Images
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Agriculture: harvesting rice
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Burgess and Son's receipt for making a dish of curry, after the Indian manner.
Burgess and Son (Firm)Date: [1800?]- Archives and manuscripts
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Household Cash Book
Date: 5 April 1823 - 31 March 1883Reference: RET/3/4/2/2Part of: The Retreat Archive- Digital Images
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Nepal; bullock cart in the Terai, Rapti Valley, 1986
Carole Reeves- Pictures
A Chinese farmer and his sons working a water-wheel. Halftone after Maynard Owen Williams.
Williams, Maynard O.Reference: 37871i- Digital Images
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Land preparation: ploughing with water buffalo
John & Penny Hubley- Digital Images
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Helwan, Egypt; rural smallholding
Carole Reeves- Videos
Is gm safe?.
Date: 2000- Books
State of the world 2011 : innovations that nourish the planet : a Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society / Danielle Nierenberg and Brian Halweil, project directors ; Linda Starke, editor.
Date: 2011- Archives and manuscripts
Explorers Cuttings Book 4
The Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: 1924 - 1930Reference: WF/M/GB/35/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Mellanby, Sir Edward
Mellanby, Edward, Sir, b. 1884.Date: 1896-1974Reference: PP/MEL- Archives and manuscripts
Strangeways Research Laboratory
Strangeways, T.S.P., 1866-1926.Date: c.1901-1999Reference: SA/SRL