| Photo gallery & slide show. Around 70 percent
of India's population still live in rural areas. For some, farm work
is subsidiary to their main income, but for many agriculture is the
main source of livelihood or food for the family. While in states
like the Punjab, agriculture is highly mechanised, in many places
field work has changed little in generations and much of the work
is done by hand, or, for example, using bullocks for ploughing fields. |