Planting rice outside of the desert city, Khiva, in Uzbekistan. Although plagued with water shortages, rice is an important part of the Uzbek diet. Ri

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Planting rice outside of the desert city, Khiva, in Uzbekistan. Although plagued with water shortages, rice is an important part of the Uzbek diet. Rice is grown in summer under flood irrigation and mostly in rotation with winter wheat.

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Keywords: desert, diet, planting, rice, shortages, summer, water, xorzam