Uzbekistan - pressed to pick cotton

Fully 75% of hard currency earnings in Uzbekistan are from cotton exports but old Soviet era methods remain. Although the second biggest cotton exporter in the world not much processing goes on locally. Rather than re-invest the money in more modern methods, large numbers of young people (mostly students) are still pressed into the fields at harvest time - harming the chances of creating a more educated work force and encouraging corruption at the same time more from EurasiaNet.org...