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As soon as a housewife in rural India, Sharmila Yadav all the time needed to be a pilot and is now residing her dream remotely, flying a heavy-duty drone throughout the skies to assist domesticate the nation’s picturesque farmlands. Yadav, 35, is amongst tons of of ladies educated to fly fertiliser-spraying plane beneath the government-backed “Drone Sister” programme. The scheme goals to assist modernise Indian farming by decreasing labour prices, in addition to saving time and water in an trade hamstrung by its reliance on outdated expertise and rising challenges from local weather change.