The Home, The Field and The Flux
It’s hard to find someone in Uzbekistan who doesn’t have some connection to farming. For centuries, people have been figuring out ways to bring water even to the driest parts of the steppe. Later, the Russian Empire, and then the USSR, implemented irrigation projects to capitalize on cotton, which led to an ecological disaster — the shrinking of the Aral Sea. Today, workers massively migrate across the country to rent fields as independent seasonal farmers, while others are employed in cotton picking by giant businesses close to the government.
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Nowness Asia
East East
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