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Sundarban Farmers Need a Rice Variety That Is Salt-Tolerant But Also Marketable


Sundarban Farmers Need a Rice Variety That Is Salt-Tolerant But Also Marketable
The increasing frequency of cyclones means growing high-yielding varieties – which do not grow well on saline soil – is no longer an option.
A villager at a temporary shelter on a high ground in the aftermath of Cyclone Yaas, at Ghoramara Island in the Sundarban Delta complex of the Bay of Bengal, Saturday, May 29, 2021 Photo: PTI
Environment8 hours ago
Kolkata: Cyclone Aila of 2009 had triggered a wave of migration from the Sundarbans region, after the storm surges associated with the cyclone inundated thousands of acres of land with saline water from the rivers and the seas and left them uncultivable for years to come. It took a few years for the land to get back to normal yielding capacity. ....

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Looming cyclone sparks fears of dam breach, tidal surge in coastal Bangladesh


 
Shuvro Sachin, Khulna Correspondent, 
bdnews24.com
Published: 24 May 2021 10:41 AM BdST
Updated: 24 May 2021 10:41 AM BdST
Natural calamities have been devastating the lives of nearly two million people in the coastal areas of Khulna, Satkhira and Bagerhat for one and a half decades. A brewing cyclone in the Bay of Bengal brings back old memories to the coastal population, as the dams scarred by previous storms are too weak to survive another tidal surge.
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A deep depression over the Bay intensified into a cyclonic storm, the latest threat to the shanties that they call home along the dams in Koyra, Dacope and Paikgachha in Khulna, Shyamnagar and Ashashuni in Satkhira, and Sharankhola and Mongla in Bagerhat. ....

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