Paddy Paddy Everywhere

All along the road to Mulshi we could see farmers going about their businesses. Since its the early part of monsoon, the crops was still tender and green (the rectangular light green patches in pic below). Some were still ploughing (below), while some were ready to re-sow.


The main crop around here is rice ... and so all we could see for miles was paddy. Many of the folks were re-sowing, the process where the paddy is first seeded in crowded rectangular patches (like in above pic) while the field is made ready and filled with rain water, and few weeks later the paddy croplings are plucked from their patches and re-sown sparsely into the fields (below).


And as you can see from the pictures above, most of the process is manual. The ploughing etc is done by bulls and re-sowing is done mostly by women.