An organic movement grows in Kyrgyzstan Farmers in this heavily agricultural nation are embracing chemical-free crops — Meduza
Story by Diana Kruzman for The Beet. Edited by Eilish Hart.
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A Kyrgyz boy pets a donkey as other people launch a balloon at sunset outside Tash-Dyobyo village, about 7.5 miles south of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Oct. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Vladimir Voronin) TASH-BASHAT, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — The political turmoil that has gripped Kyrgyzstan hasn’t reached the quiet village of Tash-Bashat in the mountains near the capital, where residents talk about the country’s feuding elites with resignation and disdain. Kanat Kaliyev, a 57-year-old farmer, and his family said they have little respect for authorities, whom they see as deeply corrupt. “Let them steal, b...