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Pasakojimas apie kukurūzus   [Original Title]

A Tale About Maize   [Title Translation]
Country of Origin: Lithuania
Year of origin: 1958
Genre: documentary
Locations of shooting: Anykščiai district, Salantai district

Credits
Production company: Lithuanian Film Studio

Director: N.Liubošicas
Director of photography: R.Gabalis

Keywords: agriculture, žemės ūkis
Essay on characteristics of maize production and utilization in Lithuania. Seminar of corn growers of Troškūnai collective farm. Lecturer speaks about corn production in Lithuania. Fields ready for maize cultivation. Women take the soil samples and examine the extent of its infection with parasites. Excavated land, taken samples of soil acidity. An example is studied in the laboratory. Laboratory. Liming of soils, the soil is fertilized with superphosphate and potassium fertilizer. The data is recorded into the "maize passport". Land cultivation by tractor. Appropriate maize varieties are selected. Corn cobs. Collective farmers examine seed germination. Blooming apple trees. Maize is sown in a square - blister method. Original maintenance of the corn. Maize seedlings in the fields. Corn fields are loosened by tractors and cultivators. Grown maize seedlings are harrowed by light harrow, fertilized with organic fertilizer, ammonium nitrate. The crop is sprayed with herbicides against the weed. Collective farmers inspect the high corn. "Dawn" collective farm’s corn growers, headed by Aldona Andrijauskaitė - record-holders of maize production. A woman and a man pass a field of corn, watch activities of corn harvesting. Corn is cut by special tractor, crushed, poured directly into the dump trucks. Winter, semi-mechanized line of cows feeding in the farm collective. Cows are fed with corn silage. Milking of cows with milking machines. Milk is poured into cans.

Version 1
Language: lit
Sound: Sound film
Aspect: 1:1,37
Duration: 00:14:38

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