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By Ravshan KALANDAROV, independent journalist based in Tashkent
Early autumn is a hot season in Uzbekistan. This is the time of harvesting cotton, which is one of the main agricultural crops of the country. Thousands of people as well as cotton harvesting equipment can be seen on the fields. They are collecting a valuable crop without losses and on time.
Cotton harvesting campaign of the recent years can be characterized by the absence of workers under the age 18 as well as public sector workers on the cotton fields. It’s not a secret that in the previous years Uzbekistan suffered considerable image and financial losses due to child labor in the cotton picking campaign.
But the work carried out by the government of...
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