Freitag, 3. Januar 2014

Rural India

The beauty of barren landscapes, used for grazing or as a meagre wood source


...and the beauty of the colourful clothes within these rather arid areas

...the beauty of housing constructions from wood, cow dung, mud, bricks...





Ploughing by the power of oxen in the fields of the research centre

Sowing of chickpeas with oxen

The sowing device

In the region of the Narmada river, farmers have the privilege of having enough water to irrigate their fields by flooding them... On the arable land, the river water is used intensively (if not excessively and unsustainably...) and this cultivated, green land appears as a great contrast to the mostly arid conditions.
This is how a flooded field looks at the time of sowing...


...and this is the striking contrast between the barren and arable land

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