{"id":28053,"date":"2021-02-08T15:45:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T06:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/08\/fighting-for-life-bangladesh-shrimp-farmers-destitute-in-wake-of-cyclone"},"modified":"2021-02-08T15:45:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T06:45:32","slug":"fighting-for-life-bangladesh-shrimp-farmers-destitute-in-wake-of-cyclone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28053","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fighting for life&#8217;: Bangladesh shrimp farmers destitute in wake of cyclone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natural disaster compounded by the collapse of a lucrative export during the pandemic has thrust people into poverty<\/p>\n<p>This time last year the west coast of Bangladesh was a thriving place for shrimp farmers. It was a decent enough living and there was a healthy export market.<\/p>\n<p>Majnu Sardar, who lives in Koyra upazila (administrative region) in Khulna district, used to earn enough to feed, clothe and educate his family of six. Now they are living in a small mud hut, with a canopy of leaves as a roof, on the banks of the Kapotaksha River after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/21\/super-cyclone-amphan-deaths-india--bangladesh\">Cyclone Amphan<\/a> buried his house and land in May.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/08\/fighting-for-life-bangladesh-shrimp-farmers-destitute-in-wake-of-cyclone\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural disaster compounded by the collapse of a lucrative export during the pandemic has thrust people into povertyThis time last year the west coast of Bangladesh was a thriving place for shrimp farmers. It was a decent enough living and there was a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,1066,1149,59,1389,914,1709,958,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-coronavirus","category-food-security","category-global-development","category-hunger","category-infectious-diseases","category-natural-disasters","category-poverty","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28054,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28053\/revisions\/28054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}