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Sustainability in 3rd world agriculture
"Oz" wrote in message ... Jim Webster writes But let us look at it rationally. 1) there isn't a lot of point of them trying to do anything agricultural because even if they get the land right and yields up they are still just subsistance peasants producing commodity product. I cannot imagine there being a market for Tajik grain beer or melons. It's cotton. Takes all the essential irrigation water, trashes the environment. Ex-soviet megafarms, apparently. I've seen the Aral sea from the air:-(( 2) I would suspect that educational level/literacy is pretty good I don't know, but I suspect not. I have been to Uzebeckistan when it was still soviet and they had pretty good levels of education, but I don't know whether this was general so they would happily train up to work in pretty well any industry. At the moment they would doubtless undercut pretty well most other labour pools. No, because it's a full time job getting water, firewood and basic foods. That is what you have to break away from. The grinding poverty which doesn't actually give you time to get away from your grinding poverty Jim Webster |
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