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The Spring Cashmere Trade of the Plateaus
(Bayankhongor, Mongolia)

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The Spring Cashmere Trade of the Plateaus
©NHK

・NHK

24 min.

M/E & English Version


With Mongolia having converted to a free market economy, nomadic tribes raising cashmere goats must adapt to the times. Follow the highs and lows of one goat-raising family trying to make it in a new world.