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A Bail gari or bullock pulled ploughing cart is used to plough a field in Maharashtra's Badlapur belt, in the early monsoon seaon. Bael pulling a hal or hull. The monsoons are here and it's time to sow the kharif crop! Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy and in India majority of the population are from the rural areas whose profession is farming food on a mall or large scale. Most of the land-owning farmers have a sustainable livelihood with traditional methods of farming. However, for large scale production induced by higher demands, cultivators have shifted to sing mechanical equipments which are manufactured from factories. There is dependence on tractors mainly when it comes to cultivating rice. Bullocks pull plough: Cultivating rice the traditional way in rural Maharashtra: