millet cultivation

His neorealist films like 'Bicycle Thieves' and 'Umberto D.' deeply explore rural agricultural life and peasant struggles with subsistence farming.

His trilogy 'Apu' and films like 'Pather Panchali' intimately portray rural Bengali village life centered on traditional agriculture and millet/grain cultivation.

His meditative films like 'Days of Heaven' and 'A Hidden Life' poetically examine humanity's relationship with land, crops, and agricultural labor.