1429 BURKINA FASO - At the market

In Burkina Faso, agriculture represents 32% of its gross domestic product and occupies 80% of the working population, although only 13% of the total land area is under annual or perennial crops. It consists mostly of rearing livestock, and in the south and southwest the people grow crops of sorghum, pearl millet, maize (corn), peanuts, rice and cotton. In general is a subsistence agriculture, due to the highly variable rainfall and to poor soils, but also due to primitive methods. As a result, Burkina Faso is not self-sufficient in food. In this postcard can be seen two men trying to sell some agricultural tools, which don't seem to be industrial products, but rather made by craftsmen. 

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