India - Part 6 - The countryside

India is an Agricultural power-house.  It has 10 million farmers, and the agricultural sector accounts for 52% of employment (that's a pretty striking figure in terms of the absolute number of agri workers - particularly if you consider that the official unemployment number is 2.55% - 37m people "only").  According to the department of agriculture:

"India is among the top producers of several crops such as wheat, rice, pulses, sugarcane and cotton. It is the highest producer of milk and second highest producer of fruits and vegetables.  In 2013, India contributed 25% to the world’s pulses production, the highest for any one country, 22% to the rice production and 13% to the wheat production.  It also accounted for about 25% of the total quantity of cotton produced, besides being the second highest exporter of cotton for the past several years."

Interesting pic, in terms of the numbers above - (in the distance in white) people planting by hand, plenty of water, and India's beautiful and varied landscape.

Pilgrims in the landscape.  Every time I go out of the cities in India, I encounter people on pilgrimages.

Trucks stopped overnight, in the early morning landscape.

Herdsmen on the road, Amit up ahead.

Heading down into the Grand Canyon of  India, entry road cut through the granite hills - had to put the phone away because the speed was picking up significantly; time to tuck up, get all the bits and pieces in, and fly.