Ploughing with a power tiller

Farmer ploughing his field using a power tiller in Manamaiju, Kathmandu. With traditional belief, farmers of Kathmandu valley do not use ox and plow as a method to make furrow for cultivation. But in rural and hill side in Nepal plowing using ox and a plow is till dominant technology for agricultural cultivation.

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Camera: Canon EOS Digital REBEL XSi
Location: Manamaiju, Kathmandu, Nepal
Date: 17 November, 2013