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Poor rainfall affects farming
Labourers work in a paddy field at Thaska village in Punjab on July 25. Rice is the main summer-sown crop in the country. Sowing is over in 14.46 million hectares compared to 16.13 million hectares a year earlier. Poor rainfall has affected sowing in West Bengal, Orissa and the northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.
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Women farmers
Women farmers work in a paddy field in Orissa on July 25.
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Rice crop
A farmer plants rice saplings in a paddy field at Bhat village on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on July 30.
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Rice saplings
Farmers walk through a paddy field at Bhat village on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on July 30.
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Raising rice crop
A farmer couple look at the rice crop in their field in Kammam district in Andhra Pradesh
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