A pair of royal oxen fulfilled their roles in this year’s royal ploughing ceremony, which marks the beginning of the rice-growing season, by predicting a bountiful harvest. The oxen consumed three of ...

Even though ox-ploughing makes my work easier it has challenges. I have to spend at least Shs20,000 monthly on treatment of each ox to keep them healthy.

Cuba manages to keep ploughing on in the face of US sanctions: Oxen and horses are the only option for farming and transportation in many parts of the country due to fuel shortages ...

Thailand's new King Maha Vajiralongkorn attended an annual plowing ceremony on Friday where sacred oxen predicted a bountiful harvest, auguring well for the world's second largest rice exporter's ...

Philip Henderson looks like he just stepped out of a little house on the prairie, ready to yoke his oxen and plow a field. A weather-worn cattleman’s hat shades his eyes. Suspenders hold up h… ...

This year may be a better one for Thai rice production. At least, that’s what two sacred oxen and a ceremonial lord forecast at the country’s annual ploughing ceremony.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP)— "We have gone back about two centuries," groans farmer Alfonso Morales who, for a lack of diesel in oil-rich Venezuela, must now rely on oxen to plough his land. &quot ...

Thai astrologers on Thursday predicted an "abundant" harvest after a pair of sacred white oxen munched on grass and rice, and slurped up water in an annual ritual watched by newly crowned King ...