Wheat harvest goes high-tech, but at a cost

Wheat harvest goes high-tech, but at a cost

The growing use of modern harvesting machinery is rapidly transforming wheat farming in Khanewal district, offering efficiency and time savings but also creating new economic challenges for farmers and labourers. Khanewal is among the major wheat-producing districts of Pakistan, where traditional harvesting practices have long been a defining feature of rural life. In the past, fields would be filled with labourers cutting wheat manually with si…