The combine harvesters used in Punjab are in much demand by wheat farmers of the Jammu region and have made the manual harvesting a thing of the past. Besides the less cost involved in harvesting and thrashing of the wheat crop with a combine harvester, the scarcity of farm labourers and the easy availability of these modern farming equipment are the main factors behind this sudden change in the technique of wheat harvesting here. Earlier the labourers, especially from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, were easily available in Jammu, but now the labourers demanded more wages and were hardly available. That is why the farmers here were adopting the modern harvesting technique used by their counterparts in Punjab. The Tribune team, while touring the fields in Bishnah, RS Pura, Kathua and Samba districts in Jammu, came across a large number farmers using the combine harvesters.