June 21, 2008

Old Farming Habits Leave Uzbekistan a Legacy of Salt

Seventeen years after the end of the Soviet Union, cotton is still king in Uzbekistan, where the environmental destruction linked to the diversion of rivers for irrigation continues unabated.

Filed under Irrigation News by By SABRINA TAVERNISE

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