Farming/Agriculture On Stamps

Australia
Food Production Campaign
February 11, 1953
One of the three designs shows mechanized wheat production.

Some stamps from India, promoting the Green Revolution

Qatar
World Food Day
October 16, 1981
The design shows modern farming and FAO emblem.

Farmer plowing with bullocks, and globe highlighting location of India, printed by photogravure, and issued by India on December 30, 1959 to publicize the First World Agriculture Fair, held in New Delhi, Scott No. 327.

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"Sugar Industry," engraved and printed by Waterlow & Sons, Ltd., and issued for use in Jamaica on October 10, 1938, Scott No. 125.

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Farmer plowing a rice paddy field with water buffaloes, combined engraved and lithography, and issued by (South) Vietnam on August 29, 1970 to publicize the "Land to the Tiller" agriicultural reform program, Scott No. 376.

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Hans Kudlich (1823-1917) was an Austrian political activist, legislator, writer and physician noted for being a leader of the movement to end the feudal policies (known as the "Robot Patent") of the Austrian government which required farmers to provide labor without compensation to the noble landowners. Here is an image of a stamp depicting Kudlich and laboring peasants, designed by Maria Schulz, combined engraved by Robert Trsek and photogravure, and issued by Austria on October 23, 1998 to commemorate the 175th anniversary of Kudlich's birth, Scott No. 1770, plus an image of a lithography portrait of Hans Kudlich by Austrian artist Eduard Kaiser (1820-1895) which was a model for this stamp's design.

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Here is an image of a stamp depicting a farmer plowing with oxen, printed by lithography, and issued by Uruguay on April 29, 1949 as one of a set of two stamps publicizing the 4th Americas Regional Conference of Labor, Scott No. 579.

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DDR (Germany)
National Agricultural Exhibition
June 26, 1962
The 10th National Agricultural Exhibition was held in Markkleeberg. The stamps depict corn planter, milking parlor, and wheat harvester.

Tunisia
Organic Farming in Tunisia
May 12, 2010
The stamp set shows the following produce:
artichokes, peppers, almonds, barbary figs, tomatoes, olive oil, grenades, and dates.

Kyrgyzstan
Cotton - White Gold of Kyrgyzstan
December 13, 2014
The souvenir sheet depicts cotton crops and cotton field.

Two women pollinating corn (maize), designed by Tran Ngoc Uyen, printed by lithography, and issued by (North) Vietnam on January 1, 1965 as one of a set of three stamps publicizing the economic and cultural development of the mountain region, Scott No. 334.

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Wheat, an airmail stamp engraved and printed by Security Banknote Company, Philadelphia, and issued by Honduras on September 14, 1943, Scott No. C138.

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The Azad Hind Stamps are a set of Cinderella stamps designed by German artist Werner von Axster-Heudtlass (1898-1949), and printed by photogravure in 1943 in Nazi Germany for Subhas Chandra Bose's Azad Hind (Indian National Army). Here is an image of a stamp from the set depicting a plow and a farmer plowing with a team of bullocks.

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Farmers and workers, and a portrait of President Habib Bourguiba (inset), designed by A. Graïri, engraved and printed by Bradbury Wilkinson & Co., Ltd., and issued by Tunisia on March 20, 1957 as one of a set of six stamps commemorating the first anniversary of independence, Scott No. 305.

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