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In the year 2005, the world's population of six billion is suffering from acute famine.The World Food Organization decides on desperate measures to decrease the population by a process of triage.
Rice winnowing, Uttarakhand, India Winnowing in a village in Tamil Nadu, India Use of winnowing forks by ancient Egyptian agriculturalists. Winnowing is a process by which chaff is separated from grain. It can also be used to remove pests from stored grain. Winnowing usually follows threshing in grain preparation. In its simplest form, it ...
Titan Books. 2024. ISBN 9781803364384. Other novels. The first two entries are the same novel; they are marketed with different names in the US or UK markets. —— (2021). A Dark and Secret Place. Crooked Lane Books. ISBN 9781643855745. —— (2021). Dog Rose Dirt. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780008383831. —— Games for Dead Girls. Crooked Lane ...
The winnowing machine also had a rotary fan which had a blower that had a crank handle to create air to blow away the lighter seed casings to separate the husks from the pile of grain. [2] [3] A rotary fan winnowing machine with two farm workers separating the grain from the husks as illustrated in Song Yingxing's Tiangong Kaiwu.
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A winnowing fork. This verse describes wind winnowing, the period's standard process for separating the wheat from the chaff. Ptyon, the word translated as winnowing fork in the World English Bible is a tool similar to a pitchfork that would be used to lift harvested wheat up into the air into the wind.
Winnowing is an agricultural method for separating grain from chaff. Winnowing may also refer to: Winnowing (sedimentology), a natural sediment separation process; Winnowing (snipe) or drumming, a courtship sound "The Winnowing", a 1976 short story by Isaac Asimov
A winnowing barn consists of a large shed on tall posts with a hole in the floor. Raw, husked rice was carried up into the barn by slaves and then the grain was dropped through the hole. As the grain dropped to the ground, the lighter and undesirable chaff was carried away in the wind, leaving a mound of purified rice grains directly below the ...