Uzbek farmers battle to save wheat crops from salinity problems
Published 2024년 5월 7일
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Farmers in Qarshi, Uzbekistan, have sought advice from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) due to a significant problem of increasing soil salt deposits. This issue, attributed to poor irrigation in an arid region, threatens the sustainability of farming, particularly for staple crops like wheat and cotton, which are essential to Uzbekistan's economy.
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QARSHI, Uzbekistan -- On an unseasonably mild spring afternoon, second-generation farmer Diyor Juraev gathered a group of worried growers in a wheat field outside Qarshi, a city in southern Uzbekistan. They came looking for answers from a U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) delegation to an existential problem for the country's farmers: After decades of poor irrigation in an arid ...
Source: Nikkei
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