Friday, August 19, 2005

Farmer with Bullocks

Agriculture is the chief occupation of people in India, considering 70 % of the demography is rural. Rice is the chief crop cultivated in the South. Farmers depend on the monsoons to a great extent, and after the 1st shower of the South West Monsoon, thry till the soil with their bullocks and plough, after which they sow the rice grains. This picture was taken in the vicinity of Nagarhole National Park, Karnataka.