Geo-trekking in Ethiopia's Tropical Mountains: The Dogu'a Tembien District — illustration 1, PDF page 441
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- Habesha History book corpus — Geo-trekking in Ethiopia's Tropical Mountains: The Dogu'a Tembien District
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- Geo-trekking in Ethiopia's Tropical Mountains: The Dogu'a Tembien District
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- Geo-trekking in Ethiopia's Tropical Mountains: The Dogu'a Tembien District; PDF page 441; embedded illustration 1, exact source rectangle 56.52, 62.36, 363.46, 224.39
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- 2019
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Photo 29.3 The derdero+ system involves shaping of beds and furrows by a pair of draught animals with attached mahrasha (on a farmer’s field at May Zegzeg, July 2009). Only a single, broad-spaced tillage operation is needed. The farmer replaced one of the oxen in the span by a (weak) cow, as only the sediment accumulated in the previous year’s furrows needed to be reworked and less power was needed. Note how the left ox walks in the furrow, which provides guidance for the position of the plough tine in the immediately upslope furrow. After Nyssen et al. (2011)
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