Fall is harvest season. Today The Frame looks at the harvest season in countries around the world. (17 images)
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Garrett Ziebell, 19, helps unload wheat during the harvest this month at E&F Farm, owned by Fred Fleming, near Reardan, Wash. in Lincoln County, Sept. 21. Fleming helped start Shepherd's Grain, an alliance of Pacific Northwest farmers who practice sustainable farming. AP / Erika Schultz
Steve Wendel unloads corn from last year's crop Tuesday Sept. 15, in Manly, Iowa. Wendel, like many farmers across the country, are emptying grain bins, getting equipment ready and waiting to begin the harvest of what experts predict, could be a record harvest. AP / Steve Pope
Doug Kleckner stands on his combine looking at an ear of corn on his farm near St. Ansgar, Iowa, Tuesday Sept. 15. AP / Steve Pope
The Fender's Farm corn maze along Tennessee Highway 107 south of Jonesborough has the Boy Scouts of America emblem cut into the corn field this year in recognition of the 100th anniversary of Boy Scouting in America. The maze, which opened on Sept. 11, features about two miles of intricate trails. AP / Phil Gentry
Afghan Bamiyan farmers harvest a healthy crop of wheat as the fall approaches on Sept. 7, in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. Wheat and potatoes are currently the main crops in the Bamyan region. Figures recently released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reveal a reduction in poppy growing. The Helmand province already has decreased production by 33 percent while the rest of country as a whole by 22 percent. The USAID forecasted that Helmand residents will double local hydropower with an estimated 35,000 farmers seeking wheat seeds in the year. A UK government aid of eight million pounds, part of a Food Zones program for the war torn region of Helmand, hopes to in the coming year sign up 39,000 farmers to grow wheat instead of opium poppy. Under the Food Zone scheme, farmers will pay for subsidized high quality wheat seed and fertilizer, followed by technical assistance to encourage them to put legal crops in the ground this planting season. Getty Images / Paula Bronstein
Farmers harvest rice on a rice field in the suburd of Hanoi on Sept. 8. Till the end of July, Vietnam singed contracts of exporting 5.294 million tonnes of rice. AFP /Getty Images / Hoang Dinh Nam
Farmer Franz Krammer drives fresh apples towards his refrigerated container during the apple harvest next to the lake Constance on Sept. 4, in Lindau, Germany. The lake is situated in Germany, Switzerland and Austria near the Alps. More then 1500 farmers grow apples in the lake Constance area. Getty Images / Miguel Villagran
Eberhard Riecke lines up his harvested pumpkins at his farm in the eastern German city of Phillippsthal on Sept. 9. The farmer has harvested 25 different types of pumpkin this year. AFP / Getty Images / Michael Urban
Belarusians harvest potatoes on their field in the village of Novoselki, 110 kilometers east of the capital Minsk, Thursday, Sept. 17. Potatoes are a basic staple of the Belarus diet. AP / Sergei Grits
Belarussian cadets from the Minsk police academy help with the potato harvest at a collective farm 60 km north of Minsk in the village of Granichy on Sept. 15. Government run collective farms are common in Belarus. AFP / Getty Images / Viktor Drachev
Grape pickers are pictured at work in a vineyard on Sept. 12, at the Grand Pre estate in the Beaujolais region, eastern France. This year's harvest season arrived early due to high summer temperatures. Some 3,000 farms covering 19,000 hectares between Lyon and Macon host 50,000 harvesters from aroud the world for the season. AFP / Getty Images / Jean-Philippe Ksiazek
Bulgarian woman collects grapes during the first week of the grape harvest near the village of Brestovica east of the capital Sofia, Tuesday, Sept. 15. After following the early start of the 2009 grape harvest this year it is expect to be one of the good years for vine-growers in the Balkan country. AP / Petar Petrov
A Bulgarian collects grapes during the first week of the grape harvest near the village of Brestovica east of the capital Sofia, Tuesday, Sept. 15. AP / Petar Petrov
A laborer climbs a tree to pluck coconuts at a farm on the outskirts of Bangalore on Sept. 10. It's a question that has left the best minds in India scratching their heads: how to harvest the key coconut crop when no one either wants or knows how to climb trees any more. But officials in Kerala, the southern agricultural state famed for laid-back tourism on tropical beaches, believe they have a potential solution. They have announced a six-month competition for engineers to design a mechanical harvester to pick coconuts. AFP / Getty Images / Dibyangshu Sarkar
A laborer plucks coconuts from a tree at a coconut farm on the outskirts of Bangalore on Sept. 10. AFP / Getty Images / Dibyangshu Sarkar
A worker sorts through bagasse, or the residual fiber left over after the juice is squeeze from sugar cane inside a cooperative sugar factory in Satara, near Pune in western India in July 2009. The fiber is used as fuel to generate electricity. Once a major exporter, India may have to import a third of its sugar in the current fiscal year. Sugar in India is a case study in feast-to-famine swings in which bountiful crops are followed by anemic harvests. Volatility is aggravated -- some analysts say caused -- by government efforts to control prices to balance the interests of farmers and consumers. The New York Times / Prashanth Vishwanathan
A seasonal worker collecting dates at an orchard in southern Baghdad's Dora neighborhood on Friday, Aug. 14. Late July and early August is date harvesting season in Iraq, when within the span of a few weeks the desert sun turns hard green spheres into tender, golden brown fruit prized for its sweetness. But here in Iraq, one of the places where agriculture was invented more than 7,000 years ago, there are increasing doubts about whether it makes much sense to grow dates -- or much of anything for that matter. Slowly, Iraq's economy has become based almost entirely on imports and a single commodity. The New York Times / Joseph Sywenkyj
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