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Trading Tractors for Camels

by Pat Coate | May 07, 2008

Rajasthan, India - Farmers in Rajasthan, India are forsaking their gas-guzzling tractors and returning to using their trusty camels for haulage.

Due to rising gas prices farmers are rediscovering the "ships of the desert."

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