This Peace Corps Volunteer teaches agricultural science at a rural “pilot high school” in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border. He spends his days in the fields teaching the boys up-to-date cultivation methods.
An average Pakistani farm usually has a hand-operated feed-chopper. The two boys on the left are working the chopper while the man at the right feeds sugarcane tops into the machine.
This field was reclaimed from salinity, but a part of it again went barren, which means that this plot contained more salts than the other parts of the field. The whole process of reclamation will have to be repeated now on this plot.
This Peace Corps Volunteer is an agricultural specialist working in connection with the Academy for Village Development at Comilla. He has set up a model dairy. 1962
I took these images in Lahore, Pakistan in 1961. The man started in the morning restringing his Charpai (rope bed). He finished about dusk. The children just appeared.