Africa. French West Africa. This Buckeye ditcher is one of Economic Cooperation Administration's greatest contributions to the Niger project. In a single day one of these $50,000 machines can dig an irrigation canal one mile long and three feet deep. The ditcher shown here working in the new N'Debougou rice fields is handled by a six-man crew of natives

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