/ETSAKOR PROVERBS
ETSAKOR PROVERBS ETSAKOR DIALECT: Tsi otor, or kha somhi vhi ime; a ge gwa li ighele eva. TRANSLATION: If a piece of land is productive for farming, it is cultivated twice. MEANING: The Proverb here recommends that a piece of fertile land could be cropped for two seasons before it is left to go fallow. LIFE APPLICATION: This Proverb is connected to agriculture. But that notwithstanding, it has many other areas of application in life. In agriculture, one of the systems of farming commonly practiced by African farmers is called 'Shifting Cultivation. In this method, a piece of land is cropped for one season and left to go fallow for two to three years before it could be used again. However, this Proverb here offers a special recommendation for farmers. The counsel in the Proverb pertains to virgin lands or fertile forest. So, it recommends that such lands could be cropped for two seasons (instead of the usual one season, under Shifting - Cultivation described above); before ...