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Photo from Andranomena, Madagascar
 
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A man uses a zebu-drawn plow to prepare a field for growing rice. His name is Baba ny Bola. The next step is to stomp the mud in the rice paddy to break it up and prepare it for transplanting rice seedlings. Families who don't own zebu must break the earth by hand. In this region, two crops of rice are planted per year.

by Clare Sandy
Andranomena, Madagascar (1999)

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