An Uzbek boy collects the day's haul of cotton on a tractor trailor in Kiruv, near Tursunzoda, western Tajikistan.
An Uzbek boy collects the day's haul of cotton on a tractor trailor in Kiruv, near Tursunzoda, western Tajikistan. Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have recently come under criticism for using child labor for collecting cotton every summer. Much of Central Asia was engineered towards cotton monoculture, with extensive irrigation creating grave environmental consequences such as the disappearance of the Aral Sea. During the Sovietization of Central Asia, many ethnicities like the Kyrgyz got split up amongst the many republics with borders designed to counter nationalism or ethnic unity. Today, many ethnicities are split amongst the various new Central Asian nations.
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Keywords: asia, boy, central, centralasia, child, collection, collective, cotton, labor, landscape, post-soviet, postsoviet, regar, tajik, tajikistan, tractor, tursunzoda, uzbek, youth
