Motilal Raika is a pastoralist from the Barmer district and he owns about a hundred goats and sheep. He has a family of six. Like most families in the Thar desert, his family chiefly relies on livestock rearing husbandry for their household income. “For centuries, in the summers, my ancestors migrated to greener grazing lands in the Sindh region, northern parts of Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana.
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