On The Road in India
Ramesh was fantastic at painting the picture of India for us. On the bus in the morning he explained the massive population surge the cities are seeing. It is simply impossible to keep abreast of the infrastructure required (roading, sewage, electricity, housing, education, healthcare). We are here in the dry season and the living standards we are seeing are challenging beyond imagination – the monsoon season can only be hellish.
Once out of the city we could see the first of the small agricultural plots, that many farming families are surviving on. There was rice, corn, sugarcane and some small horticulture plots. Most farms between 2-5 acres, with all the produce traded on a local market for other produce. We stopped at one sugar cane farm where the cane was ‘refined’ over an open fire and set in the air (and flies) alongside the dairy cows!
Ramesh was fantastic at painting the picture of India for us. On the bus in the morning he explained the massive population surge the cities are seeing. It is simply impossible to keep abreast of the infrastructure required (roading, sewage, electricity, housing, education, healthcare). We are here in the dry season and the living standards we are seeing are challenging beyond imagination – the monsoon season can only be hellish.
Once out of the city we could see the first of the small agricultural plots, that many farming families are surviving on. There was rice, corn, sugarcane and some small horticulture plots. Most farms between 2-5 acres, with all the produce traded on a local market for other produce. We stopped at one sugar cane farm where the cane was ‘refined’ over an open fire and set in the air (and flies) alongside the dairy cows!
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