Between Hospet, 460 km northwest of Bangalore, and Hampi lie several villages. Sugars cane, bananas, and rice are common crops. Artificial fertilizer is being applied to a newly planted sugar cane. Most of the bananas are exported to Goa. Water buffalo are used for milk and bullocks as draft animals. Livestock dung is dried on walls and used for cooking fuel and/or sold in town. A small Hindu temple is in one village. Worshipers have hang stones on the branches of a holy bodhi tree to have their wish for houses come true. Stone carvers in Hospet produce Hindu icons for homes and temples.