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Monday, 31 December 2007, 17:42 GMT

Africa in pictures: Farming

A farmer in Ghana opens a cocoa pod revealing gooey white seeds (Photo by BBC News website reader Alexis Chapman)
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Alexis Chapman's photo of white coca seeds in Ghana that will eventually become chocolate is the first in a series of shots on farming in Africa sent in by BBC News website readers.

A Tanzanian herder with his goats (Photo by BBC News website reader Skyler Russell)
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Skyler Russell says it is not uncommon to see young boys out on the vast Tanzanian plains herding their father's sheep and goats: "I love the dust that envelopes this young boy."

A Ugandan tests curd to be made into cheese (Photo by BBC News website reader Kate Arding)
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Cheese-maker Kate Arding went to Karamoja, cattle country in north-eastern Uganda, to teach people how to make cheese. In this picture someone is seen testing the curd.

A woman in Darfur, Sudan, digging holes in dry earth for seeds (Photo by BBC News website readers Fred and Aileen Knip)
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In this picture sent in by Fred and Aileen Knip, a young Sudanese woman displaced by the conflict in war-torn Darfur prepares the ground for seeds.

A Ghanaian farmer tilling with cattle (Photo by BBC News website reader Jamaal Montasser)
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Jamaal Montasser took this shot of a man ploughing a field with cattle while on a work placement with Ghana's ministry of agriculture.

A Zambian farm worker next to a tractor in a field which he is preparing for maize (Photo by BBC News website reader Wilhelm Hesse)
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Zambian farmer Wilhelm Hesse sent in this picture of ex-colleagues who were preparing land that was previously bush for cultivation by a technique known as "disking"...

Farmer Wilhelm Hesse in a field on the Mpongwe Development Company estate in Zambia's Copperbelt province (Photo by BBC News website reader Wilhelm Hesse)
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... here Mr Hesse is snapped in a wheat field on a large estate which has since been divided up and sold - which he fears will affect productivity in the area.

An aerial view of fertile fields in northern Kenya(Photo by BBC News website reader Angela Sacha)
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This aerial photograph of fields in northern Kenya was taken by Angela Sacha whilst flying between Nanyuki and the Matthews Mountains.

A woman farmer with a bunch of bananas on her head and a hoe over her shoulder in Malawi (Photo by BBC News website reader Rick Wadley)
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A Malawian woman in Kandie village returning from a day of cultivation with a bunch of bananas on her head is captured in Rick Wadley's picture.

A Nigerian farmer with his maize harvest in Gombe State (Photo by BBC News website reader Joe Mulligan)
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Joe Mulligan photographed a subsistence farmer and his family in their store of maize harvested between November and December in the isolated Dadiya Hills of north-eastern Nigeria.

Sifting grain in Ethiopia (Photo by BBC News website reader Justin Hackett)
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A woman sifts grain in Justin Hackett's photograph taken in Tach Gayint in Ethiopia's Amhara region. For a future gallery please send in pictures from Africa of the colour purple.

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