21. When tilling their fields, young Dayaks find partners by communicating through verse recitals. 22. With livestock weak and few in number, farmers must till their fields by hand instead of using beasts to pull plows, further diminishing output. 23. Epidemics are a constant threat, and there are not enough people to till the fields after the harvest to plant for next year. 24. Where the army is active, Burundians say, Hutu peasants till their fields by night and sleep during the day. 25. Just outside the village of Celic, badly battered by the war, a group of peasants are out tilling the fields. 26. Most of the explosions are set off by farmers tilling fields, children playing with small cluster bombs, or adults attempting to salvage larger shells for scrap metal. 27. Officials feared there would also be a high toll as returnees to rural areas started tilling their fields for the planting season that begins next month. |