Eritrea: 'Doing More With Less'

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Eritrea: 'Doing More With Less'

[Shabait] Cultivation of the earth is the most important labor which makes farmers very essential members of our community. Taking the importance of farmers into consideration, we would like to introduce a group of friends who are striving to ease the labor of local farmers. This group of friends has done several projects in accomplishing their goal of doing more with less. Be-cause most of them work in different parts of the country, we could not get hold of them but we were able to interview one of the members of

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