Migrant salt workers, known as Agarias, carry bundles of firewood over the cracked-mud bed of a dried-up sea in the Indian state of Gujarat.Migrant mi·grant n. 1. One that moves from one region to another by chance, instinct, or plan. 2. An itinerant worker who travels from one area to another in search of work. adj. Migratory. salt workers, known as Agarias, carry bundles of firewood over the crackedmud bed of a dried-up adj. 1. wrinkled or cracked from drying. 2. having its water supply exhausted. Adj. 1. dried-up - (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves sea in the Indian state of Gujarat Gujarat (g  jərät`), state (2001 provisional pop. 50,596,992), c.75,686 sq mi (196,077 sq km), W India, on the Arabian Sea. . Around 25,000 Agaria families are in debt to salt merchants, who advance them money in return for their annual harvest, which accounts for about 70 percent of India's table salt. Agarias have no permanent homes and no access to clean water, education, or health care.
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