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(From Indian Express)
'Farming is serious business, not all song and dance in waving wheat fields as in the movies'THE tall poplar trees whisper a little as a dark shadow silently streaks past them. A dog barks in the distant wilderness. And then there is complete silence. It's 4 am, the sun is yet to peep over the horizon, but at the imposing Khiara homestead in Bassi Umar Khan village near Hoshiarpur, Punjab, the day has already begun. With a mug of steaming milk in hand, the prettily plump 50-year-old Harpreet Khiara strolls barefoot on the moist carpet of grass, her three dogs in tow. ''The dew is great for the eyes, and charges me up for the day,'' she says ...