An open field of buckwheat plantation in Turtuk village of Leh district, of Ladakh. Buckwheat is a moisture-loving, cool-climate, annual plant that is a native of Central Asia. In India, it is widely grown in the high mountains and fits well in the high Himalayas where the growing season of a crop is of limited period because of early winter and snowfall. The Thang village was seized from Pakistan as a result of the Indo-Pakistan war in 1971. Pharnu and Thang are twin villages where family members are seen living on either side of the two neighbouring country's villages. The Thang village was
An open field of buckwheat plantation in Turtuk village of Leh district, of Ladakh. Buckwheat is a moisture-loving, cool-climate, annual plant that is a native of Central Asia. In India, it is widely grown in the high mountains and fits well in the high Himalayas where the growing season of a crop is of limited period because of early winter and snowfall. The Thang village was seized from Pakistan as a result of the Indo-Pakistan war in 1971. Pharnu and Thang are twin villages where family members are seen living on either side of the two neighbouring country's villages. The Thang village was seized from Pakistan as a result of the Indo-Pakistan war in 1971. Pharnu and Thang are twin villages where family members are seen living on either side of the two neighboring country's villages.
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