In late February, every inch of tractable land, divided into small family plots not half the size of an American plat home back yard, is tilled using a water buffalo and a wooden plow.
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PHUC THOI VILLAGE, Vietnam ( AP ) _ Wooden plows and water buffalo are tools of the past for Tran Tam, a ruddy 68-year-old rice farmer in the fertile Mekong Delta.
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Two donkeys pull a wooden plow across the rocky soil of the Galilee while a smiling carpenter fashions tools with the same materials that the young Jesus would have seen Joseph use in this town almost 2, 000 years ago.
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He expressed admiration for Brazilians who had crossed the border " with nothing more than their carts, oxen and wooden plows, have worked 25 or 30 years and brought great progress to the area in recent years ."
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A tourist traveling down the highway, headed to the resorts and beaches on the Pacific, may rush past the turnoff for the dirt road that twists 50 miles to Xochiltepec, look out the window, and see something that looks like a rustic reverie _ a farmer in a straw hat behind yoked oxen, working his fields with a wooden plow.
