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farmland · birds

Cattle Egrets confidently follow this group of Indian villager women working in their paddy fields and harvesting the raw rice. The Egrets hope to pick up the insects disturbed by the women. Symbiosis between human beings and wildlife!

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Freshly dug up fields of spuds attract Cattle Egrets looking out for displaced insects. They work closely with the farmers in order to rid the fields of insects and feed themselves.

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Indian male farmer ploughs his field with the help of his white pair of bull and it takes lots of time and energy to plough the field.

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An Indian farmer ploughs his agricultural field using a Mahindra 475 DI diesel tractor. He ploughs using a rake that digs up the spoil.

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The old and the new do indeed co-exist in India - sprinklers and moderen-day irrigation systems on the one hand and oxen or bulls to pull the 'hall' or 'hull' to plough the fields, on the other...

farmland · village

A farmhouse in Mizoram has pumpkins drying on its verandah, to be used by the family and sold in the market as a cash crop. Villagers bring in their harvest on baskets or tokris, walking past floss flower or ageratum blossoms.

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Ripe Finger millet or Ragi grow in a field of Karnataka. Karnataka is the leading producer of ragi with 53.94 per cent of the total area and 53.36 per cent of the total production of the crop in the country.

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Two women ploughes Potato in the feild. A kid ploughs potato with elders. There are bags filled with potatoes. It is a hilly area. The potato reached India in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, most likely aboard ships from Portugal.

farmland · hills

Farmers transplanting rice seedlings in a paddy field in South India. Transplanting should be done when seedlings are ready for transplanting.

Punjab·farmland

A Disc Plough is attached to a HMT 3511 tractor in the field in Amritsar. A disc plough is used to till the soil and cut the unwanted weed or crop remainders.

railway · farmland

A railway level crossing in Uttar Pradesh uses the old fashioned manual gears and levers system, wherein the duty in charge receives a call about an incoming train and switches the levers for the track and opens and closes the gate for traf…

Uttar Pradesh·farmland

A person ploghs the agricultural field with the Escort 335 tractor in India. The tractor has the registration number UP 70 which is of district Allahabad. The tractor runs on the road which is flooded with water.

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farmland · village

Just like the Dhaman or Rat Snake is a farmer's friend, these Cattle Egrets and Pond Herons live and breed around the agricultural fields and farms in this Karnataka village.

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Health First - Salon and Spa is advertised in front of sardarji's tractor, even as he drinks his garam garam malai walah doodh in a stainless steel glass! he coolly lines up his tractor alongside the massive Crop Star NSG 930 combine harves…

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An Indian farmer ploughs his agricultural field using a Ford 4600 tractor. He ploughs using a rake that digs up the soil.

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An Indian man ploughs stubble field using Ford tractor in a village. Tractors in India is a major industry and significant contributor to its agriculture output gains.

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An Indian woman makes drainage ditch in an agricultural field at a village in central India. Agriculture uses an estimated 70% of the freshwater withdrawals globally.

village · farmland

An Indian farmer family works in an agricultural field. Another Indian couple rides by-cycle at a village. Agriculture, with its allied sectors, is unquestionably the largest livelihood provider in India, more so in the vast rural areas.

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A hay rake is an agricultural rake used to collect cut hay or straw into windrows for later collection (e.g. by a baler or a loader wagon). It is also designed to fluff up the hay and turn it over so that it may dry.

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Punjab is one of the most fertile regions on Earth. The region is ideal for growing wheat, rice, sugarcane, fruits and vegetables. Indian Punjab is called the “Granary of India” or India’s bread-basket.

farmland · industry

A baler, most often called a hay baler is a piece of farm machinery used to compress a cut and raked crop (such as hay, cotton, flax straw, salt marsh hay, or silage) into compact bales that are easy to handle, transport, and store.