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GHAR EL MELH, Tunisia, Nov 5 Dotted among wetlands on Tunisia's coast, a patchwork of tiny man-made islands stretches out towards the Mediterranean. Ploughed in neat furrows and shored up by sandba ....
GHAR EL MELH, Tunisia (Reuters) - Dotted among wetlands on Tunisia's coast, a patchwork of tiny man-made islands stretches out towards the Mediterranean. ....
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(Corrects engineer s name to Hamdi from Hamid) GHAR EL MELH, Tunisia (Reuters) - Dotted among wetlands on Tunisia s coast, a patchwork of tiny man-made islands stretches out towards the Mediterranean. Ploughed in neat furrows and shored up by sandbanks inside a lagoon, they are home to a centuries-old system of agriculture that climate change threatens to wipe out. Ali Garsi has farmed a 0.8-hectare (two-acre) plot in the Ghar El Melh wetlands, which lie some 60 km (35 miles) north of Tunis, for 20 years. Relying on a layer of freshwater that feeds his plants above a saltwater base, he grows mainly potatoes, onions and tomatoes. But with sea levels and temperatures in the area rising and rainfall below average, his yields are dropping. There is a shortage in the quantities of rain, and this definitely negatively affected the quantity of our product in general, the 61-year-old retired teacher told Reuters as he looked across the lagoon plots, collectively known as al-Qataya. Production ....