Photo Essay: Cotton, a stubborn cash crop

2 October 2018

Cotton, a so-called cash crop, doesn’t result in enough income for many farmers as the name would suggest. Greedy pests, droughts and low market prices make it increasingly difficult for farmers to rely solely on cotton farming. Global Ground Media followed the production from the field to the market and the processing factory.

Pictures by Abhaya Gupta

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