Readying tobacco leaves for drying, Ahenkro, 1986

Tobacco began to be grown as a cash crop in the Banda area in the early 1980s. Here young people tie leaves to the branches from which the tobacco will be suspended while hanging in the drying barn. Visible in the background are two drying barns built of cement block and roofed with iron sheets. Tobacco companies advanced farmers the materials to build these barns against the farmer's crop. Between the drying barns is a stack of wood brought in by tractor to fuel fires in the barns. In the background of one photo, men carry headpans filled with tobacco which they have brought from farm. Two photos. South side of Ahenkro, July-August, 1986.

Creator

• Dr. Ann B. Stahl

Subject

• Building
• Lifting and carrying
• Metal roofing
• Firewood
• Tobacco
• Agriculture
• Cash crops

Publisher

• University of Victoria Libraries

Keyword

• Men's work
• Drying barns
• Headpans
• Children's work
• Wood piles

Date created

• 1986-07/08

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Geographic coverage

• Ahenkro

Coordinates

• 8.163264, -2.356141

Provider

• Dr. Ann B. Stahl

Genre

• 35 mm slide

Date digitized

• 2016

Technical note

• Slide scanned by Veronique Plante

Year

• 1986

Permalink

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