--- title: The Government Helps Rice Farmers url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/government-helps-rice-farmers-1966/ description: A green-and-white photo sheet (code SP-1097) describes seed-rice distribution under Kien Hoa province's 1966 rural improvement programme. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. The Government Helps Rice Farmers [![The Government Helps Rice Farmers, 1966 US poster: A green-and-white photo sheet (code SP-1097) describes seed-rice](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/government-helps-rice-farmers-1966.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/government-helps-rice-farmers-1966.jpg) # The Government Helps Rice Farmers A green-and-white photo sheet (code SP-1097) describes seed-rice distribution under Kien Hoa province's 1966 rural improvement programme: 100 tonnes for four districts and a plan to farm 2,000 mau in two seasons instead of one. Photographs show a province chief carrying a sack of seed to farmers, a stack of sacks at a ceremony, and an official explaining that pumps can be borrowed during the growing season. The sheet shows the provision of aid and gives the numbers it chooses to give. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` CHÍNH PHỦ GIÚP ĐỠ NÔNG DÂN Vấn đề cấp phát lúa giống là một phần trong chương trình cải tiến nông thôn 1966 của Tỉnh Kiến Hòa. Ty Nông Vụ Kiến Hòa dự định canh tác 2.000 mẫu ruộng thành hai mùa thay vì một mùa. 100 tấn lúa giống sẽ cấp phát cho các Quận Thạnh Phú, Ba Tri, Bình Đại và Hàm Long. Trung Tá Tỉnh Trưởng đang tự vác một bao lúa giống trao tận tay cho nông dân Một Đại Diện nông dân phát biểu cảm tưởng về chương trình cải tiến nông thôn của Chính Phủ Trung Tá Tỉnh Trưởng đang giải thích cho một nông dân rằng họ có thể mượn máy bơm nước trong suốt thời gian canh tác. SP-1097 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THE GOVERNMENT HELPS THE FARMERS The issue of distributing seed rice is part of the 1966 rural improvement programme of Kien Hoa province. The Kien Hoa Agriculture Service plans to farm 2,000 mau of fields in two seasons instead of one. 100 tonnes of seed rice will be distributed to Thanh Phu, Ba Tri, Binh Dai and Ham Long districts. The Lieutenant Colonel Province Chief carrying a sack of seed rice himself and handing it directly to farmers A farmer representative speaks his feelings about the Government's rural improvement programme The Lieutenant Colonel Province Chief explaining to a farmer that they can borrow water pumps throughout the farming season. SP-1097 ``` Vietnamese diacritics transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at image resolution. The handwritten-style sign on the easel in the middle photograph is too small to read and is not transcribed. 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Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). 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