At harvest time you can help pick grapes or even tread them alongside locals.

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As usual at harvest time, tension between Palestinian farmers and Jewish settlers has risen.

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Here, each July, at harvest time, the Gilroy Garlic Festival kicks off--the biggest bulb bash in the world.

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Once a year at harvest time, the local cotton company sends a four-wheel-drive truck to pick up his sacks of cotton.

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There are apple growers in Washington State who don't have to scramble for pickers at harvest time because the same crews return every year.

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For all three the arrangement is like the one that governs chicken production in the U.S., with a giant corporation supplying inputs to a small farmer and then picking up the output at harvest time.

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"But anything in the ground, has got to stay in the ground, it is very difficult to harvest at this time of year, " he said.

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Patrick Chimuvi, a government agriculture advisor in Malawi, says the radio programs have been very successful in helping farmers improve their skills and harvest their produce at the best time.

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It takes, on average, 6 months or more for food to be purchased, shipped and delivered: meaning that food aid normally arrives at around the time of the next harvest (many tropical areas have two harvests a year).

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We all need to eat after all and it takes quite some time, many months at least, to plant and harvest a new food crop.

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