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Farming in Ethiopia
A farm is an area of earth which is used for production. It is also an area of Cultivation of the land cultivation, through different mechanisms (plaguing the land by using animal force, digging the garden for fruit and vegetable and also in the modern world it can be manipulated by using the innovative machines like tractor). Farming is the major basis of Ethiopian economy, which encompasses around the 85% of the total population of the country. This stands about the survival of the majority population is depend on it, even if it is carried out in a traditional way. This farming in Ethiopia is performed by using the human and animal forces (like oxen, horses, camels, donkeys etc.). The major activities (plaguing the land and digging the garden)are carried out to produce products for consumption and sale/export, like cereals, fruits, vegetables, coffee sesame, flax and the like. But the majority of the population in the country produce for daily consumption due to different limitations, for example insufficient amount of farm land, unavailability of latest technology, less fertility of soil and other natural hazards like flooding, drought, soil erosion, unseasonal rain.

Traditional farming tools in Ethiopia
Almost all farming tools in Ethiopia are traditional and made of from different wood materials. These tools includes sickle, pick axe, plough shaft, ploughshare, plow, beam and animal force as a machines. The plough shaft, beam and ploughshare are made of wood and the sickle, pick axe, plow are made of metal. ploughing the land using these tools is ambiguous and time consuming. According to Ethiopia farming, this ploughing the land to prepare the soil for sow requires around two quarter of a year. ploughing the land to soften the land takes three months and from sowing and seedling to the harvesting of the crops requires three to four months. Ethiopian farmers plough their land by combining the above tools for such three months to get yearly consumed food. The major product in are teff, wheat, maize, sesame, Niger, linseed etc. in addition to these cereals, they produce different types of fruits and coffee which are not seasonal.