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Rice has been grown innorthern ItaIy for centuries
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Iike in China and India.
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It grows in a vast pIainspanning the provinces
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of Pavia, Novara and VerceIIi.
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An indeIibIe mark has beenIeft in this Iand
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by miIIions of women
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whose hands have tended itfor 500 years.
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Hard workthat never changes...
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knee-deep in water, bentdoubIe under the hot sun.
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But onIy women can do it...
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It needs quick, Iight hands.The same hands...
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that patientIy threadneedIes and nurse babies.
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This is Radio Turin
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bringing you a very speciaIshow today. We're standing
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near the trains that take theworkers to the rice pIantation.
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They Ieave for the pIainevery year, in earIy May.
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They come from aII overnorthern ItaIy.
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It's a reguIar mobiIization ofwomen of aII ages and trades.
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Farm hands, factory workers,dressmakers, typists...
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The pIanting and weedingseason Iasts 40 grueIIing days.
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Let's hear one of the workers.What's your name?
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Severina Cerrifrom MonseIice.
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Severina is now going to teIIus about the impressions
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the needs and the ideaIsof these workers.
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