China, Jiangsu, Qidong, Farmers clearing aquatic vegetation from a choked irrigation canal with bamboo poles.

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China, Jiangsu, Qidong, Farmers clearing aquatic vegetation from a choked irrigation canal with bamboo poles. They hope to catch any surviving fish in small mesh nets attached to some of the poles. The nutrients from agricultural runoff mainly fertilizer and pesticides is causing the eutrophication of water bodies across China and is a major problem. agriculture irrigation farmers farming fishing fertilizer pesticides bamboo eutrophication China water bodies Asia Jiangsu Qidong aquatic vegetation canal canal bank crops rapeseed rural dominant green group men poles straw hats waders weed weeds environment environmental Asian Chinese

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Size: 5110px × 3421px
Location: China, Jiangsu, Qidong, Farmers clearing aquatic vegetation from a choked irrigation canal
Photo credit: © Trevor Page / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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