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Photos below by Alison Weisskopf.
Upland rice field in Laos. Cucurbit crop in foreground.
Harvesting upland rice by hand-stripping.
Lao farmer with dibble-stick, used for planting upland rice.
Threshing dried rice sheaves.
Rice processing: winnowing by fanning.
Mechanized dehusking by a food peddle, dehusking machine.
Traditional manual dehusking, using a wooden mortar and pestle.
The Early Rice Project survey team in Laos (L to R): Alison Weisskopf, 'Tito' (NAFRI, the National Agricultural Dept. of Laos), Chaki Muto (rice geneticist and ethnobotanist, from Kyoto, Japan), (local farmer)