Bangladesh salt farmers struggle as climate shifts disrupt harvests

Mongabay
May 20, 2026, 10:59 am246 ptsTrendingTop
Bent over a salt bed, a 55-year-old farmer, Nasir Uddin, was scooping up and throwing out water with a hand-made pot His field was flooded by a few hours of heavy overnight rain. On his 0.5 hectares (1.2 acres) of salt plot located in southeastern Bangladesh, nearly 18 maunds of salt (each maund is equal to 40…

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