VISAKHAPATNAM:, September 24, 2014 19:34 IST

'Green drive': The drive to interior areas of Visakhapatnam District towards Chodavaram is a pleasant experience with the lush green fields greeting the traveller. One comes across groups of farmers with their bullocks and farm labour heading to the fields. The farm operations are in full swing with copious rainfall in September. Farmers are busy transplanting paddy in flooded agriculture plots turning them into green carpets overnight. Some are cultivating millets in small plots of land. Bullocks, buffaloes and a few tractors here and there are busy ploughing the land adding colour to the landscape. The Hindu photographer C.V. Subrahmanyam captures some of those scenes.

1/11 A picturesque view of the lush green fields and clouds clinging to the hills on a rainy day at Turuvolu village in Visakhapatnam District. In the foreground is the indegenously built granary. Photo: CV. Subrahmanyam Photo: C_V_SUBRAHMANYAM Farm labourers on their way to work in the fields near Chodavaram in Visakhapatnam District. Photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam Photo: C_V_SUBRAHMANYAM A woman uses an umbrella woven using palm fronds to protect herself from the drizzle as she walks on the bund of a flooded paddy plot in Chodavaram mandal of Visakhapatnam District. Photo: CV. Subrahmanyam Photo: C_V_SUBRAHMANYAM A picturesque view of the lush green fields and clouds clinging on to the hills on a rainy day at Turuvolu village in Visakhapatnam District. Photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam Photo: C_V_SUBRAHMANYAM Farmers use a tractor for deep ploughing a plot of land for cultivating paddy near Pendurthy on the outskirts of Visakhapatnam city. Photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam Photo: C_V_SUBRAHMANYAM Farmers taking their harnessed bullocks on their way to work on their farms near Chodavaram in Visakhapatnam District. Photo: CV. Subrahmanyam Photo: C_V_SUBRAHMANYAM Farm labourers on their way to work in the paddy fields near Chodavaram in Visakhapatnam District. Photo: CV. Subrahmanyam Photo: C_V_SUBRAHMANYAM A farm hand transplanting millet saplings in a plot of land near Chodavaram in Visakhapatnam District. Sugarcane is the main crop in this area. Photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam Photo: C_V_SUBRAHMANYAM Farmers use a pair of buffaloes for ploughing land for cultivating millets near Turuvolu village in Chodavaram mandal of Visakhapatnam District. Photo: CV. Subrahmanyam Photo: C_V_SUBRAHMANYAM A farmer uses a pair of bullocks for ploughing a flooded plot of land for cultivating paddy near Chodavaram in Visakhapatnam District. Photo: CV. Subrahmanyam Photo: C_V_SUBRAHMANYAM A picturesque view of an irrigation tank and clouds clinging to the hills on a rainy day at Turuvolu village in Visakhapatnam District. Photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam Photo: C_V_SUBRAHMANYAM