India, Aug. 1 -- Gujarat's Little Rann of Kutch, producing a third of India's salt, faces rising climate threats. The Agariyas, its traditional salt workers, balance fragile livelihoods with ecological pressures

Gujarat is India's undisputed salt heartland, churning out roughly three-quarters of the nation's supply; almost one-third of that comes from a single landscape - the Little Rann of Kutch (LRK), which is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in the future. The community responsible for carrying out this painstaking work is locally known as the Agariyas. Kodi Thakurs by caste, they have for generations harvested salt from the moody salt flats of the regions of Kutch and Surendranagar

The 8000 Agariyas in this region ...