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Picture of a person standing in a sunbeam at a fertilizer factory in Indonesia
April 9, 2022

Fertilizer Factory

A worker pauses in a warehouse at a fertilizer factory in Sumatra, Indonesia. Operated by the state, the factory supplied one-fifth of the nation's fertilizer when this image was published in 1989.
Photograph by Charles O'Rear, Nat Geo Image Collection

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