This key component of the festival takes the form of ritual dancing to flute music and drums for an abundant harvest of rice crops.

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It is a key component of the festival and takes the form of ritual dancing to flute music and drums for an abundant harvest of rice crops.

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In industrialised nations, such as the US and in Europe, many farms employ the services of commercial hives to pollinate fruit trees and food crops, and ensure they harvest adequate yields.

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Masika has become a mother figure to the women and their children -- the results of rape -- and as they plant, tend, harvest and finally sell their crops they begin to heal together.

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But this device was once one of the most important tools in the world, used to cut grass for hay and harvest crops from fields.

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Onur Sahin, who heads the Chamber of Agriculture in the Black Sea province of Ordu, says his fellow producers no longer want seasonal migrant Kurds to harvest their hazelnut crops.

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