Insight into Farming in Burkina Faso

On December 11th we went to the north of OHG and visited the birage where most of the farmers work due to the close proximity to water. (Remember I had talked in an earlier blog how 80% of Burkina’s population are farmers.) Here is a glimpse of Burkinabe farming which is all done by hand, there are no industrial machines to be found. As you will see everything is hand watered which takes hours because the water has to be transported from either the birage or a well.

After a farmer shows us how to dig up potatoes I take a crack at it.

You can see the birage in the background of this photo.