Caption: Date: 1966
Location: Biratnagar, Morang
Description: Farmers using cattle to ready fields for early spring rains. First a wooden plow with a metal tip was used to turn over the soil and bury weeds or other unwanted plants and then a flat board to help break up clods of earth. The fact that the farmer was wearing all white clothes might indicate that some family member had recently died. But his longish looking hair would indicate otherwise. Keywords: Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, Peter Von Mertens, agriculture, plowing, tilling
