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Title: Ag Fair 2
Date: 1971
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Teaching was an important element of the ag fair. Here J.T.A. Baidya Nath Jha describes and demonstrates the use of new farm implements.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0025
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2937
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Ag Fair 3
Date: 1971
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: In addition to food grains (rice and wheat), several varieties of vegetables were exhibited. Vegetable seeds were available through local collection as well as from the Janakpur Agricultural Station and Kathmandu.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0026
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2938
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Ag Fair 4
Date: 1971
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Here we see several entries of eggs. Other animal husbandry related exhibits included fish, hogs, rabbits, and cattle. The Pardan Panches (elected leaders) of the four involved panchayats (similar to townships and the lowest elected leadership position in Nepal) helped with the judging. Cash prizes were awarded.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0027
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2939
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Ag Fair I
Date: 1971
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Here a Nepalese Agricultural Technician, Ram Chandra Sinha, who had temporarily joined our team, registers entries into several categories of competition. The Ag Fair was held in conjunction with the Megha Nath Mela (community celebration in Meghraul) and was attended by hundreds of people. There were 99 entries in 34 competitive classes, plus a few for display only.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0024
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2936
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Artesian Water
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Artesian water has made the Terai Nepal’s bread basket. The constant availability of water allows for growing wheat during the dry season. Here we see water bubbling out of a patch of sand on its own. These wet patches were not that common but by simply driving a pipe a few feet into the ground water would flow. It was always cool and clean and the runoff was captured in nearby pools which were great for fish cultivation.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0016
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2928
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: District Ag Office
Date: 1968
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: This building was our District Ag Development Office as well as the home of our District Director. I assume he had a family, but they were not with him here. We traveled by bus to this office every few months to discuss agricultural projects. It looks shabby but was a sound brick building.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0018
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2930
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: District Director
Date: 1968
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: This young man was our first District Agricultural director. Light skinned and small in stature with slight oriental features, we can tell his home is from the hills or mountainous area north of the Terai. His mother tongue was Nepali and he spoke good English. His job was to oversee agricultural advancements as directed by his superiors in the capital, Kathmandu.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0017
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2929
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Fish Project 2
Date: 1970
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: B.N. Jha holds up a prize Israeli carp harvested from the Megraul pond. Israeli carp grew very fast so fish this size could be harvested in a few months. They required no additional feeding and were a great new source of protein.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0020
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2932
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Fish Project I
Date: 1970
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: My source of Israeli carp fingerlings was quite near me. An hour walk and a two hour train ride would bring me to Janakpur where the Nepalese government had developed a fisheries station. Here PCV Frank Daly and I are receiving our supply of fingerlings which we delivered to landlords who had ordered them. Small, muddy village ponds were fine for cultivating these fish. A plastic bag was placed in a mustard oil tin. Water and fingerlings were poured into the bag. The bag was tied shut with plenty of air left at the top. We took the tins by bicycle rickshaw to the train station. We rode the train to the train station closest to our village and with some luck rendezvoused with an oxcart to travel the rest of the distance. The fingerlings were then poured into their respective ponds.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0019
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2931
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Hauling Rice Straw
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: This Tharu worker is transporting rice from the threshing floor by bell gari (ox cart). He has his lungi (skirt) bundled up around him. He has stopped in front of the landlord’s house. With its wooden second floor, it is quite fancy for the Terai.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0009
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2921
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Hog Project
Date: 1971
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: In animal husbandry, raising hogs was by far the biggest challenge. They were considered a dirty animal and could be kept only by untouchables for the landlords who purchased them. Also, the piglets had to be brought from Biratnager, a day’s trip east by train. I had many interesting experiences transporting and working with hogs. While they were a temporary success, I doubt they had much of a permanent impact as I am sure fish and chickens did.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0022
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2934
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Plowing Demo
Date: 1968
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Between crops of rice and wheat, the ground had to be plowed. This simple plow could be pulled by either a man or an ox. Wheat was a new crop for the people of the Terai in 1968. It doubled production in fields where before only rice was grown. Plowing became more important.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0012
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2924
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Poultry Project
Date: 1970
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: New Hampshire chicks were available at the agricultural development farm in Parwanipur. Acquiring and raising chickens for egg production was more problematic than our fish project but could be done with some effort. Parwanipur was a day away by either train or tractor and wagon so picking up chicks was often a three- day project. Furthermore, the chickens needed to be vaccinated and the medicine, brought down from Kathmandu, kept cold in thermoses with dry ice. Yet the projects were successful, and the result was hundreds of healthy chickens and thousands of eggs. Later we tried a white leghorn variety of egg layers.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0021
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2933
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Rabbit Project
Date: 1970
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: We learned that rabbits were available at the prison in Kathmandu. With two does and one buck, I started a prolific rabbit population. Through my stay in Nepal, the rabbits were mostly being kept as pets. Some villagers were suspicious that they were a type of rat and off limits as food for anyone except Musahars and other untouchables. My hope was that they, too, would become a source of protein. Their initial value to us was that through their sale we were able to provide cash prizes for our coming agricultural fair.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0023
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2935
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Rice Harvest 2
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Once cut the bundles are carried on top of the head to the threshing floor. Workers are paid one thirteenth of what they cut in wages.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0004
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2916
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Rice Harvest I
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Both women and men, mostly Tharu, eagerly join in the rice harvest. The rice is cut with a hard sickly and a bundle is bound with a length of straw. By this time poor families are desperate for food and may be down to rice or wheat chaff for their meals. Rice harvest is typically late October and into November.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0003
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2915
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Rice Ready to Harvest
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Rice has long been a staple crop of Nepal and is grown during the hot, wet summer season. The Green Revolution brought fertilizers and new, high producing glutenous types of rice which increased production greatly on the Terai (Nepal’s southern plain). If the new glutenous types of rice were not needed for food locally, they were the first sent to market.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0002
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2914
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Ripe Wheat
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: These stands of wheat are now ready to cut. There are several varieties of wheat here since this is a demonstration plot. The landlord and Junior Technical Assistant, B.N. Jha, look over the field. In the background harvesting has begun.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0014
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2926
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Row Planting Of Wheat
Date: 1968
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Row planting was a new technique for these farmers who had been used to the broadcasting of rice seed only. Rice seed was broadcast and the seedlings were transplanted in rows in flooded fields. Once plowed, this rice field is planted with wheat during the fall, the cool and dry season. Small furrows are made and seed is dropped into them by hand.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0013
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2925
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Straw Stack Near Pond
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Straw is piled in stacks at the edge of the town and used, in addition to grasses, to feed oxen and cows. It is also used for small fires in the cool season, November to February. It is common during these months to see workers squatting and warming their hands in a circle around a straw fire. Straw is also used by the poor for cremation.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0010
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2922
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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