August 1962 - Backyard Of The North - A Haven of quiet

August 1962 - Backyard Of The North - A Haven of quiet hope - a mission with its quiet groves - in a land that so little. It's all right if you get a job with the government. Then a man and his family can live. But far too many children die with their bellies full. Research men are trying desperately to find a crop that will not only grow but also pay in the north. It's the north of Northern Rhodesia, the backward backyard of the federation. Here, some places, the infact mortality rate rises to as much as 30-50 per cent. Here families live and multiply on the equivalent of 5 a year. Statistics have a nice clean word to describe these people: subsistence farmers. This means a man who prays for good rains, hopes this year's baby lives and last year doesn't weaken, and goes about surviving this month before thinking about next. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA)

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