It’s high time for cotton crop. Uzbekistan fields that are stretching kilometers away are totally covered with cotton wool. Let’s see how the field is cleared.
Cotton pieces are covering the bushes.
Before a cotton crop supply of fields with water is stopped. The cotton plants are dried out.
Cotton is hidden in green boxes like that. By the way, it is prohibited to take pictures of some cotton field clearing as the fields belong to private property.
But the real reason is that children labor is actively used in field clearing. They spend 2 weeks a year in the fields and miss classes at school.
Women cover their faces with cloth in order to inhale less dust and save themselves from the sun.
Then cotton is placed in such a bag which can be later used as a place for sitting.
Last year this woman collected 118 kg of cotton and got 6 US dollars for that.
One bush gives this amount of cotton.
The kids help their parents and don’t look tired or exhausted.
Weighing the cotton.
Putting results in a notebook.
Location: Tashkent
via protchenkov
very sad to see ! ! ! ! !in Soviet time,cotton picking was totally “mechanized” .hand picking was rare view at that time.
another “strange” thing is “cotton wool” ! ! ! ! ! !what the h*** thing it is ? ? ? ?
USSR was a rich country, and Uzbekistan are now a poor country. People are cheaper than diesel fuel and a tractor. Now and in Russia as it is better to hire migrant workers from Central Asia than the tractor.
Poor children. In those fields are losted even their future…
this is very hard work.even small children are working in farms but there isnt an option.Better to work in farm and earn some money today instead of spending time in school
Bun venit pe internet frumosilor copii din Uzbekistan.
Thank for New knowledge