I was in India about five years ago and saw small-scale farmers using baskets to toss rice into the air so the wind would blow the chaff away. "Time consuming" seems about right.
All to easy to forget just how much of ordinary people’s lives were consumed, not even by farming itself, but by the laborious tasks necessary to stay alive - cutting firewood, hauling water, farming clothes...
I was in India about five years ago and saw small-scale farmers using baskets to toss rice into the air so the wind would blow the chaff away. "Time consuming" seems about right.
Automatic rice cleaners on the side of the road by a field seems like something quintessentially Japanese.
All to easy to forget just how much of ordinary people’s lives were consumed, not even by farming itself, but by the laborious tasks necessary to stay alive - cutting firewood, hauling water, farming clothes...