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Salt Pans
In western India, villagers harvest salt from the Arabian sea, or from water deep underground in the desert. It’s a job that’s passed on from father to son within families, but labor contracts favor the landowners, not the workers.
Harvesting salt is a way of life for thousands of Gujarati villagers in western India, and it’s hard work in difficult conditions. As Meara Sharma reports, landowners and middlemen make a handsome profit from salt, but not the villagers who toil in the burning sun.