FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

A life dedicated to the soil

02/12/2021

The contribution of Gulmira and everyone to counter soil degradation processes is celebrated annually on 5 December, World Soil Day.

It was her first employment right after school and a perfect match for a lifetime. Forty years have already passed and Gulmira Dootalieva is still with Kyrgyzstan’s State Agency for Land Resources as a soil analyst and every day her passion for her profession is only growing.