Surrounded by a dense jungle, this area in Beed district has thousands of sunflowers swaying in the warm August breeze.
It hits you hard, but it doesn't hurt. From the depressing barren landscape of drought-hit Marathwada in Maharashtra, suddenly bright yellow sunflower fields happily greet the eye.
The dramatic change of landscape is not just a visual treat, but yet another proof of the wonders a green cover can do.
"We are surrounded by a forest and hence we don't cut trees here. This is also a hilly region and even during a drought, it rains a little more than the plains," Malaji Kekal, a local farmer from village explains, as thousands of sunflowers sway in the warm August breeze.
Despite the dense jungle, water scarcity has started affecting normal life here as well. Sunflower seeds were sown in late June with the first heavy showers. But since then, it has hardly rained. Water-harvesting ponds have dried up, and some sunflowers have begun to wilt.
Farmers across the region say they don't have enough fodder to feed their cattle and goats.
Carcasses of peacocks, blue bulls and blackbucks have often been found during summers, but with light showers reported across the region, they now have recourse to water holes deep inside the jungles
However, heavy showers allude in the region even as dark clouds fill the evening sky, only to vanish once again disappointing the agrarian community.