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A farmer ploughing with a pair of bullocks, with the emblem of the fair, an ear of wheat, and the words “First World Agriculture Fair New Delhi”, on a 15 naye paise stamp.
The World Agriculture Fair
India Post issued this stamp on 30 December 1959 for the World Agriculture Fair held in New Delhi in the winter of 1959-60, where many countries showed their farming methods, machines and produce beside India’s own. The stamp shows the most familiar sight of rural India, a farmer behind his plough and a pair of bullocks, a reminder that most Indians lived by the land and that raising its harvests was the aim of the Five Year Plans.
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