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"Sesame Oil Camel"...still in service in Yemen

A camel-pulling sesame extraction mill
A camel-pulling sesame extraction mill

Photo feature by Samie Noaman

ADEN, Aug 5 (KUNA) -- Out of many sesame-crushing mills sprouting out in Yemen's southwestern city of Taiz and its countryside, there is only one old mill that is still using camels to extract oil out of sesame seeds.
Over centuries, a camel, known as Sesame Oil Camel in Yemen, used to be the only way to pull presses to obtain sesame oil. But now electric mills are being used instead to crush seeds to extract sesame oil. (end) sns.mt