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In India, agriculture is a labour based enterprise in which most of the agricultural operations, like ploughing, levelling, sowing, weeding, spraying, sprinkling, harvesting, and threshing are carried on mainly by human hands. The use of machinery is still confined only to the rich farmers of Punjab, Haryana, western Uttar Pradesh, plains of Uttarakhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra.