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Also Known As	plough

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A farmer in traditional clothing guides a donkey pulling a plow through a dry, brown field in Yemen.

Plowing and sowing in Thebes

Watch a water buffalo pulling a plow in rural Egypt as an example of traditional farming methods used in Egypt

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John Deere

John Deere

American manufacturer