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Table 3: The tasks and stages required for cereal crop production (after White 1970, 86-110 and 446-8).
Task Stages
Ploughing by hand, by animal
Sowing decanting of stored seed, seed dispersed by hand from a basket or a sack
Tilling by hand, by animal
Fertilisation 'accidental' fertilisation from grazing, manuring, fallow field rotation and green manuring
Harvest cutting of the crop (by hand), initial processing (sizing), bundling/tying, threshing, winnowing, crop collection, storage
Transport from field to processing site, from processing site to filling station, from filling station to waystation, to residence for use or residence for storage/market
Risk Mitigation storage for sowing, storage for consumption, storage of tools, fertilisation, water resources, boundary definition, pest control, religion

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