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Farmers celebrating the harvest of rice in Camargue, France.
Farmers celebrating after the production of rice in Camargue, France. They eat food. A farmer addresses, rest of the farmers sitting there. They all raise a toast to the good harvest. Pumping stations to be started soon along the river Rhone. The farmer takes out a handful of rice from a bag. He puts rice on the table. They discuss amongst themselves.
Scenes of Apulia, in Southern Italy.
Women and girls sit and work at numerous tables where they crack nuts and shell almonds for meager wages. They sing sad songs as they work. A group of men with farm tools pass by a hill side. An accordion player leads the group. They are itinerant farm laborers of the region.
The saga of water in Apulia, Italy: Scarcity and floods
Statue of the Roman poet, Horace, who wrote of the scarcity of water in Apulia. Villagers drawing water from a communal well. A woman waters crop from a bucket. Villagers gather as officials open tap of new water supply provided with help from America. The supply comes from a 700 mile aquaduct that brings water across the Appenine mountains from other side of Italy. Scenes of Apulia inundated by flood waters during two months of rainy season. Men at work building dikes to control flooding.
Attempts to reclaim salt marshes for cultivation in Apulia, Italy.
Views of unusable salt marshes in Apulia, Italy. All able bodied men of the region band together in valiant effort to drain and reclaim salt march land for cultivation. They commence the effort in a procession led by local Priest to invoke God's blessing on the endeavor. Church bell rings in the village. They succeed with their hand tools, and cultivate the reclaimed land. But heavy rains destroy their efforts and the salt marshes return. Now, they try again, with aid of heavy equipment: tractors, and bulldozers, that can do more than simple hand tools.
Elderly man walks to the French town of Mazamet.
Shows the French town of Mazamet. An elderly man comes out of his house. The man passes by Medieval ruins on his way to the town. He walks in the town streets. He talks to an old woman in a house. View of Mazamet as seen above the valley. Man passes by sign showing the distance to Mazamet and Castres. Houses in the town. Man stops at a food shop.
Wool industries in Mazamet, France.
Boys and girls on bicycles pass by on the street in Mazamet, France. Industries in the area. Farmer with flock of sheep. Sacks of wool unloaded from freight train. Ruins of small wool factories. Water from waterfalls, river and canals used in the factories.
