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Wheat threshing action at a small farm in north India's Meerut: farmers process golden wheat stalks by pushing them into the manual thresher, risking their limbs in the process. Gluten intolerant overload, indeed! Diesel fumes from the thresher admix with the wheat chaff powder to create a potent air pollution formula for PM 10 and higher SPM! After wheat talks have been harvested from the fields of north India, the wheat stalks are threshed to separate the chaff and the wheat seeds. The chaff and stalks are then cut into minute bits to create cattle fodder while the wheat is bagged for sale in the local anaj mandi or grain market. Seen here in an Uttar Pradesh farm near Meerut, the spring-time wheat harvest is taken care of in a small farm. The finely threshed powdery form is violent stuf
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