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21-10-22 07:44 pm ಫೋಟೊ

Bangladesh farmers revive floating farms to fight climate change

A farmer irrigates his floating bed, at his farm in Pirojpur district, Bangladesh, August 16, 2022. Many farmers in the southwestern part of Bangladesh plant crop seedlings and grow vegetables on the floating rafts made from invasive water hyacinths during monsoon seasons when dry land is scarce to ensure food security as the low-lying country has been experiencing prolonged floods and water-logging because of the changing climate in recent times.

Farmer Mohammad Mostafa, 42, places water weeds on top of the seedlings' root, at his floating farm in Nazirpur, Pirojpur district, Bangladesh.
Farmer Mohammad Selim, 54, hangs a gourd with a rope to a floating bed's ceiling, at his farm in Pirojpur district, Bangladesh.
A man holds a rope as people transport floating beds towards a farm through the Belua river in Pirojpur district, Bangladesh.
Farmers sell their sell vegetables, fruits and seedlings to middlemen at a bi-weekly floating market on the Belua river, in Pirojpur, Bangladesh.
Farmers sell vegetables, fruits and seedlings to middlemen at a bi-weekly floating market on the Belua river, in Pirojpur district, Bangladesh.
Farmers work at a floating farm where they grow vegetable seedlings during monsoon season in Pirojpur district, Bangladesh.
Murshida Begum, 35, and her husband Mohammad Ibrahim, 48, load seedling balls onto a boat to be planted on their floating farm, at their home in Pirojpur district, Bangladesh.
People use boats to transport floating beds to a floating farm through the Belua river in Pirojpur district, Bangladesh.