Such vegetables would have been unthinkable a decade or so ago. Today, with improved means of transportation, fresh vegetables have arrived at the doorstep of even the most remote village.

Roads or lanes from the village are connected with the farms, and people are associated with some form of agrarian activity. A few prosperous farmers have substantial agricultural holdings to manage irrigation facilities such as wells or canals; middle level agriculturists tend to work on their own farms; while those whose holdings are small or not arable enough find opportunities to work outside their farms. Tractors, threshers and irrigation pumps have shortened the manual work of most men on their lands.

Village communities tend to live in joint families: from their work (agricultural ploughing, irrigation, harvesting, selling) to their social concerns (attending weddings, death rituals, organizing and observing betrothal and other festive ceremonies), people stay in touch, visit other villages, convey messages, and discuss daily matters. No village remains socially isolated since visits to other villages are essential for obtaining services, purchasing and selling, and the important matter of arranging matrimonial alliances. Since each village has only small numbers of families from any one caste, and since marriage between common kin members is frowned upon, such relationships are arranged in other villages among different families of the same caste. This system enlarges the relationships between different village communities.