Agriculture
Despite a bountiful harvest — peaches are rotting in eastern Georgia
Eastern Georgia’s Kakheti region is enjoying a bountiful harvest of peaches this summer. But far from celebrating their success, farmers say their peaches are being left to rot, and question why no one is helping them in their dire situation. Misha, a farmer from the village of Chumlaki in Georgia’s eastern Kakheti region, couldn’t sell his peach harvest this summer. He, like many other farmers, decided to distill brandy from the remaining pomace. There was a great peach and nectarine
