Agriculture in India and Nepal

Southern India, Andra Pradesh

• Palm Horizon showing irrigated agriculture in southern India.
• Young banana planting
• Teak trees and bananas
• Group in Pigeon Pea field
• Group in Pigeon Pea field
• Group in Pigeon Pea field
• Blister Beetle in  pigeon pea
• Cattle egrets are common.  Peacocks are as common as turkeys in Michigan but I didn't get any pictures.
• Tractor and threshing unit (small picture)
• Combine on road (reel on trailer behind
• Tractor and cotton cart

Village photos

• Village picture 1
• Village picture 2
• Village picture 3
• Village picture 6
• Village picture 5

Pesticide usage

• Pesticide storage room
• backpack sprayers
• Bullock Cart Sprayer in field one, two, and three
• Sprayer returning to upwind side
• Bullock Cart Sprayer in field side close-up
• Fungicide tanks for potatoes
• Fungicide dip for seed potatoes

• Steps for increasing wheat yields in India
• Rice storage outside near Patiala
• Fieldworkers harvest or weeding
• Cow patties on side of road. These were use extensively as cooking fuel in the countryside and poor sections of cities and towns.
• Dairy at Kapurthala
• Home and garden at Kapurthala
• Truck farm and corn at Kapurthala
• Sorting seed potatoes out of storage for rots
• Bagging seed potatoes
• Fungicide dip for seed potatoes

Chitwan Farming on the plains at the base of the Himalayas

• Chitwan plain
• Chitwan Rice Harvest
• Wagons are common in the fields
• Plowing with Bullocks

Farming in the Nepalese Hill Country

• Farm fields near Kathmandu
• More farm fields near Kathmandu
• Hillside Farms Close-up
• Distance view of terracing in Nepal
• Hill farms and mountains
• View down valley from Kathmandu pass into Trishuli river valley
• View of Hillsides
• Lumlee Experiment Farm
• Lumlee Experiment Farm, group photo
• Lumlee Experiment Farm, tea planting
• Terrace farming, Harvesting Millet
• Terrace farming, plowing field
• Terrace farming, Bullocks for dairy

Market scenes

All produce and agricultural products were sold in open air markets.  Refigerators and processed foods were not common and most Indias buy food for today and tomorrow.

• Fruit vendors in Market
• Fruit vendor and cart of fruit
• Fruit vendor and trays of fruit
• Vegetable vendors in Market
• Market scene for bus
• Fabric shops
• Market booths

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Last modified: February 16, 2000