ethiopian farmer and servant threshing grain harvest

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Ethiopian farmer and servant threshing grain harvest

ETHIOPIA, village Debre Zeit: Oromo men, largest ethnic population group in Ethiopia, during agricultural activities, threshing their newly harvested grain, harvesting grain. This is completely threshed by hand and with oxen power. These small farmers, peasants, cultivated mainly the major cereal, corn, cultivation in Ethiopia, teff. Whether the harvest remain successful is another question, because in many parts of Ethiopia [East Africa] are plagued for years by prolonged drought [dryness], water shortages, crop failures and famine. Group portrait of a farm worker, workers, at work during the grain harvest. With a pitchfork threshing is hard work in a tropical climate.