Like Jhorna, most of the people from southern Bangladesh are practising soft-crab farming as it is becoming a profitable livelihood opportunity in the excessive saline areas. For example, increasing salinity or long-lasting water logging destroys crops and soil fertility causes threat to livelihood and biodiversity. Especially after cyclone Aila, most of the coastal areas were inundated by saline water and local people faced huge losses of their livestock and assets. During cyclone Aila, all of Jhorna’s families and her neighbour's crops and vegetables died due to excessive saline water. Because she realized the importance of training sessions from her previous training experience which she gained from Practical Action.

Source: Dhaka Tribune April 29, 2020 05:37 UTC