Moving forward: Farmers harvesting potatoes in a field next to an e-facility centre (left) in the village of Gulmit. (Inset) Karim says the Internet offers a more stable source of income through outsourced work. — AFP
GULMIT (Pakistan): When a landslide created a huge, turquoise lake that cut them off from the world, the farmers of Gulmit were left destitute and unable to sell their potatoes. Their solution: to drag their Himalayan valley in Pakistan’s far north into the Internet age.
In the village, which is nestled between two peaks approaching 8,000m high, farmers scrabble to grow the produce as their ancestors did.
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