About 90 % of the country's peasants practiced subsistence agriculture, using ancient methods and tools, such as wooden plows.
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In Basigochi, a hamlet of crude log homes several hours from Creel, horses struggled to pull wooden plows through hard-packed soil.
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His dust-covered face was streaked with tears as he dug out his few remaining possessions _ a few clothes and a wooden plow.
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As children, Gebrselassie and his brothers tended the crops with oxen and wooden plows and walked up to four miles to haul drinking water from wells.
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Even in the immediate neighborhood of Athens it is common to find the wooden plow and the rude mattock which were in use 2, 000 years ago.
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John Deere, for example, invented a horse-pulled steel plow to replace the difficult oxen-driven wooden plows that farmers had used for centuries.
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Small tractors for plowing rice paddies, bicycles and surplus cash have replaced wooden plows, bare feet and a hand-to-mouth existence in some areas.
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Early settlers of fertile land in Mesopotamia used wooden plows to soften the soil before planting crops such as barley, onions, grapes, turnips, and apples.
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The fact is that in 30 years under Stalin's guidance _ just a moment in history _ we covered the road from the wooden plow to the atomic reactor.
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Here, in Vaqueria, a village surrounded by rocky fields farmed with crude wooden plows and horses, Maria Abundez asked Hernandez to help find her 20-year-old son in Chicago.
