This is the area just outside Bombay. Here are saltwater marshes and inlets that rise and fall with the tide. Scattered through the marshes were camps of people with their fishing boats alongside.
For some reason I had no expectations as to what rural and agricultural life would be like during this trip and as it turns out there was A Lot of it. I passed through miles of well tended, tidy, robust looking fields and apparently quite effective techniques for growing and gathering food.
Anil also told about a project that literally built the economy of huge parts of the rural landscape – a governement initiated program to support production, processing and distribution of milk and milk products.