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These paintings focus not on bucolic images of farms, but rather on the farmers who work the farm. There were very few images of current farmers, I guess they are out of favor in the modern art world, so we see farmers laboring in older times.
This is a video that shows rice cultivation from planting, harvesting, processing, packaging and eventually cooking. It is a Taiwanese commercial farming operation and equipment they use to plant and harvest the rice is pretty amazing.
This video is from M'Lang which is on the island of Mindanao in southern Philippines. It shows the tedium of hard labor in the paddies, as well as bit in the middle that shows workers in a rice processing plant. I have to say, if i were born there, I would probably pack my bags and head for a factory job in the city and a shot at the sweet life like so many do.
