AFP通信さんのインスタグラム写真 - (AFP通信Instagram)「AFP Photo 📷 @mananvatsyayana - Mineral misery: Vietnam salt farmers battered by imports, climate - . The salt farmers of Hon Khoi rise before dawn as they have for generations, fanning out across shallow seawater pools in southern Vietnam to harvest the precious mineral, hoping for a better season than the last. . The work is punishing and the incomes unstable, subject to seesawing demand swayed by foreign imports, and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns. . Many people in the sleepy seaside town in Khanh Hoa province have worked much of their lives in the salt fields -- an Instagram hotspot where workers wearing conical hats ferry mountains of the saline crystals in bamboo baskets along reflective ponds against a setting sun. . They shuffle carefully along narrow ledges separating the rectangular plots that are pumped full of salty seawater. . But the farmers say life is tough on the fields where they toil during the annual harvesting season from January to June.」1月23日 6時37分