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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.

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This nifty device - a soil lifter - digs up a paddy field post stubble burning or removal and sifts the soil.

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A farmer in Punjab uses a long handled shovel to collect grain after cleaning by machine. The local brand here is called Prince and they have manufactured this crop cleaner that is being used for fine cleaning of grain and unseparated paddy…

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Leaving behind a plume of diesel fumes, and adding to the noxious cloud of SPM and aerosols in the air of the northern Indian plains, this Ford tractor clears paddy stubble from the fields of Punjab, prior to the environmentally disastrous…

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Punjabi labourers work on grain cleaning machine in Punjab. They clean wheat grains and pack them in a sack for further distribution. farmers in Punjab use a long-handled shovel to collect grain after cleaning by machine.

farmland · industry

Punjabi labourers arrange the sacks of separated paddy seeds after being cleaned by the crop cleaning machine in Punjab. They put the sacks with an iron rod.

farmland · industry

Rice being cleaned on a farm in Punjab through crop cleaning machine. Workers pour the impure rice into the machine and the cleaned rice comes out from the machine.

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A farmer in Punjab uses a long handled shovel to collect grain after cleaning by machine. The local brand here is called Prince and they have manufactured this crop cleaner that is being used for fine cleaning of grain and unseparated paddy…

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A farmer in Punjab uses a long-handled shovel to collect grain after cleaning by machine. The local brand here is called Prince and they have manufactured this crop cleaner that is being used for fine cleaning of grain and unseparated paddy…

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A Punjabi farmer cuts the paddy stubble with a paddy stubble cleaning equipment in Punjab. Paddy stubble is being cleaned to be burned. The equipment is attached to a Ford 3620 tractor.

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A Punjabi farmer cuts the paddy stubble with a paddy stubble cleaning equipment in Punjab. Paddy stubble is being cleaned to be burned. The equipment is attached to a Ford 3620 tractor.

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Time-lapse of an agriculture setting fire of the straw stubble that remains after wheat and other grains have been harvested. Such practice was widespread until the 90's, when most governments increasingly restricted its use.

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Indian farmers harvesting carrots from a field in the outskirts of Kashmir. Carrots are a popular root vegetable that are easy to grow in sandy soil.

farmland · industry

India has the largest area under sugarcane cultivation in the world and is the world’s second largest producer of sugarcane next only to Brazil.

Himachal Pradesh·farmland · snow

It is interesting to see the pattern of frozen snow on the agricultural fields of the high Himalaya, in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh.

farmland · aerial

Agricultural fields with crop burning marks around Delhi. As seen aerially while landing at IGI airport.

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A Water pump in a village farmland. Much of India's agriculture uses diesel-powered water pumps that bring up ground water at a highly polluting cost to the air.

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Mustard output in Rajasthan, India’s top producing state, will rise more than a fifth this year, according to a government estimate, but some farmers voiced scepticism of the forecast as lower sowing levels and a warm winter could hurt the…

farmland · flowers

In the Aravalli hills in Rajasthan, a wide landscape of mustard fields in peak flower in January 2019. Sarsaon is a prime winter crop in India, with sarsaon ka saag being a popular dish.

Uttar Pradesh·farmland · livestock

An aerial view of Gir cow dairy farm and agricultural fields near NOIDA in north India.

Uttar Pradesh·livestock · farmland

Chana or green gram, dhania or coriander, broccoli cultivation at a cattle farm in NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh, India.