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This Indian woman is carrying a bundle of sugar cane tops. 

Sugar cane is often harvested after the crop is fired. Burning removes excess foliage and clears the fields of rats and snakes. Different parts of the sugar cane crop are used for different purposes. The cane is pressed for sugar cane juice, the tops of the plants are cut off and used for feeding livestock, and the remaining cane is used as fuel.

Harvesting sugar cane

Two young women harvesting foxgloves at Burroughs Wellcome Materia Medica farm.

Girls harvesting foxgloves

Harvesting: maize

These Ethiopian men are sorting maize cobs following the harvest. 

The kernels of cobs selected at this stage may be used as seeds for sowing the following year. To improve the genetic characteristics of a maize crop, the cobs should preferably be selected on the plant. In selecting cobs from the best plants, the farmer takes into account the number of cobs on the plant, and the situation of the plant in the field.

It is difficult for poor farmers to decide how much grain to save from a scarce harvest when the family needs both food to eat and grain to sell.

Agriculture: harvesting maize

This person in Bhutan is harvesting wheat. The lips are stained red from chewing betel nut.

Manual harvesting is the most appropriate in farming systems where the fields are small and the land slopes steeply.

Agriculture: harvesting wheat

Agriculture: harvesting rice

Shows dumps of organically grown herbal roots.

Inula Radix (Root Harvesting)

1 painting : gouache, on paper ; sheet 26.5 x 21 cm

Chinese men harvesting. Gouache.

Helwan, Egypt, south of Cairo; rural life. Women and girls harvesting sweet clover (melilotus species, called barsim by Egyptians) for cattle fodder. Photographed January 1990. See also N0022530-22531.

Helwan, Egypt; harvesting sweet clover

Helwan, Egypt, south of Cairo; rural life. Elderly woman harvesting sweet clover (melilotus species, called barsim by Egyptians) for cattle fodder. Photographed January 1990. See also N0022530-22532.

Helwan, Egypt, south of Cairo; rural life. Young girl harvesting sweet clover (melilotus species, called barsim by Egyptians) for cattle fodder. Photographed January 1990. See also N0022531.

Helwan, Egypt, south of Cairo; rural life. Young girl harvesting sweet clover (melilotus species, called barsim by Egyptians) for cattle fodder. As N0022530C but closer view. Also shows bill-hook type cutter. Photographed January 1990.

Herbal medicine.
Calendula officinalis (Marigild), flower harvesting. Used to colour foods such as butter, syrups, confectionary and rice. Sometimes substituted for saffron. Crushed stems applied to corns and warts are said to make them more easily removable. Sensitive to temperature and dampness (opens in fine weather and during the day), and used as a weather indicator. Its essential oil used in perfumes which have a sharp tang.
Shows collected fully open flower heads in bowls
at flower bed.

Calendula officinalis (Marigold), flower harvesting

bacteriochlorophyll. Alpha- and beta-apoproteins
shown as cylinders, lycopenes and
bacteriochlorophyll as stick models, magnesium
atoms as balls.

Molecular model of light-harvesting complex of

bacteriochlorophyll. Alpha- and beta-apoproteins
shown as ribbons, carotenoid and
bacteriochlorophyll as stick models, magnesium
atoms as balls.

bacteriochlorophyll. Alpha- and beta-apoproteins
shown as ribbons, lycopenes and
bacteriochlorophyll as stick models, no labels.

bacteriochlorophyll. Alpha- and beta-apoproteins
shown as ribbons, lycopenes and
bacteriochlorophyll as stick models,

1 print : etching ; platemark 16.8 x 18.1 cm

A harvesting scene representing summer. Etching by N. Perelle, 17th century.

1 print : process print ; image 14.1 x 20.6 cm

People harvesting grapes. Process print by de Pernal after C. Nanteuil.

1 print : line engraving ; image 16.6 x 21.7 cm

Slaves harvesting cinnamon near Colombo, Sri Lanka. Line engraving by Mutlow.

1 print : etching with engraving ; image 12.7 x 7 cm

A Chinese man with his tea pot, and workers harvesting tea. Etching with engraving, c. 1693.

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 24.5 x 30.8 cm

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Harvesting sugar cane

Girls harvesting foxgloves

Agriculture: harvesting maize

Agriculture: harvesting wheat

Agriculture: harvesting wheat

Agriculture: harvesting rice

Inula Radix (Root Harvesting)

Chinese men harvesting. Gouache.

Helwan, Egypt; harvesting sweet clover

Helwan, Egypt; harvesting sweet clover

Helwan, Egypt; harvesting sweet clover

Helwan, Egypt; harvesting sweet clover

Calendula officinalis (Marigold), flower harvesting

Molecular model of light-harvesting complex of

Molecular model of light-harvesting complex of

Molecular model of light-harvesting complex of

Molecular model of light-harvesting complex of

Molecular model of light-harvesting complex of

Molecular model of light-harvesting complex of

A harvesting scene representing summer. Etching by N. Perelle, 17th century.

People harvesting grapes. Process print by de Pernal after C. Nanteuil.

Slaves harvesting cinnamon near Colombo, Sri Lanka. Line engraving by Mutlow.

A Chinese man with his tea pot, and workers harvesting tea. Etching with engraving, c. 1693.

Indian workers harvesting the crop on a coffee plantation. Coloured lithograph by Deroi, c. 1850, after J. M. Rugendas.

Three women are picking up the small pieces of corn left in the fields after harvesting. Etching by A. Masson after Millet.

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Harvesting sugar cane

Girls harvesting foxgloves

Agriculture: harvesting maize

Agriculture: harvesting wheat

Agriculture: harvesting wheat

Agriculture: harvesting rice

Inula Radix (Root Harvesting)

Chinese men harvesting. Gouache.

Helwan, Egypt; harvesting sweet clover

Helwan, Egypt; harvesting sweet clover

Helwan, Egypt; harvesting sweet clover

Helwan, Egypt; harvesting sweet clover

Calendula officinalis (Marigold), flower harvesting

Molecular model of light-harvesting complex of

Molecular model of light-harvesting complex of

Molecular model of light-harvesting complex of

Molecular model of light-harvesting complex of

Molecular model of light-harvesting complex of

Molecular model of light-harvesting complex of

A harvesting scene representing summer. Etching by N. Perelle, 17th century.

People harvesting grapes. Process print by de Pernal after C. Nanteuil.

Slaves harvesting cinnamon near Colombo, Sri Lanka. Line engraving by Mutlow.

A Chinese man with his tea pot, and workers harvesting tea. Etching with engraving, c. 1693.

Indian workers harvesting the crop on a coffee plantation. Coloured lithograph by Deroi, c. 1850, after J. M. Rugendas.

Three women are picking up the small pieces of corn left in the fields after harvesting. Etching by A. Masson after Millet.

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