River Valley Treasures

The film tells about one of the main ways of raising vegetable growing in the country - the development of highly fertile floodplains for vegetables. Landscapes of winter meadows. Spring flood. View of the overflowing river. Landscapes of rivers. Thunder Sky. Men in boats float along the river. Rural landscape: birds are flying over the village. Laboratory assistants study soil samples in the laboratory. Sample of the earth under a microscope. A kind of floodplain land. Cows graze in a meadow by the river. Harvesting in a rye field. Haystacks, meadow flowers. The tractor plows the field with a harrow. View of a plowed field. Greenhouses on the field. Planting seedlings in the field. Cabbage field: women spud cabbage. Harvesting potatoes, carrots using harvesting machines. Trucks are carrying bags of root crops. Meeting of the board of one of the collective farms. Pig farm: a pig she gives feed to the pigs. Cowshed: milkmaids carry milk cans. Collective farmers tie radishes in bunches, sort the harvest of courgettes in the field, collect pumpkins. Pumpkin trucks are driving along a rural road. View of the bridge over the river. Surveyors study the plan of the area, explore the land, measure the bottom of the river. The excavator deepens the river bed. Irrigation system: water flows from the river to the fields through artificial canals; water from the river flows through pipes to the field. Watering machines on the field. The plane is spraying fertilizer over the field. Agronomists are studying samples of cabbage. Water flows from the river to the cabbage fields. The woman takes a sample of the water entering the field. Map of the Meshcherskaya Lowland. Lowland view (filmed from an airplane). Haystacks on the field. One of the cities by the river (filmed from the plane). View of the corn field. Harvesting tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, cauliflower in the fields. Surveyors take measurements in a flooded meadow. Fishermen pull fish nets out of the water. Swans on the water. Harvesting watermelons. Streets of one of the Ukrainian cities. Vegetable store: the seller weighs the goods. Camels are walking in the desert. Irrigation system in the desert. Trucks with a harvest of watermelons are driving along the city street, bringing watermelons to the vegetable base. Dining room type: vegetable dishes on the tables. Cannery: production of canned vegetables. Ships are sailing along the river.

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