page_title: Agriculture in Ethiopia
section_title: Traditional farming tools in Ethiopia
hierarchical_section_title: Agriculture in Ethiopia / Traditional farming tools in Ethiopia
caption_attribution_description: English: this farming tool is combined from different materials: like plow, ploughsaft, ploughshare etc.
context_page_description: Agriculture in Ethiopia is the foundation of the country's economy, accounting for half of gross domestic product, 83.9% of exports, and 80% of total employment.
  Ethiopia's agriculture is plagued by periodic drought, soil degradation caused by overgrazing, deforestation, high levels of taxation and poor infrastructure. Yet agriculture is the country's most promising resource. A potential exists for self-sufficiency in grains and for export development in livestock, grains, vegetables, and fruits. As many as 4.6 million people need food assistance annually.
  Agriculture accounts for 46.3 percent of the nation's Gross domestic Product, 83.9 percent of exports, and 80% of the labour force. Many other economic activities depend on agriculture, including marketing, processing, and export of agricultural products. Production is overwhelmingly of a subsistence nature, and a large part of commodity exports are provided by the small agricultural cash-crop sector. Principal crops include coffee, pulses, oilseeds, cereals, potatoes, sugarcane, and vegetables. Exports are almost entirely agricultural commodities, and coffee is the largest foreign exchange earner.
context_section_description: Almost all farming tools in Ethiopia are traditional and made from different types of wood. 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.
caption: Traditional farm tool
exif: {"Image Artist": "Mee", "Image ExifOffset": "2122", "Image XPAuthor": "Mee", "Image Padding": "[]", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2016:08:04 23:41:56", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2016:08:04 23:41:56", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "71", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "71", "EXIF Padding": "[]"}