{"id":37273,"date":"2021-09-24T14:01:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T05:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/24\/salt-tolerant-crops-revolutionise-life-for-struggling-bangladeshi-farmers"},"modified":"2021-09-24T14:01:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T05:01:08","slug":"salt-tolerant-crops-revolutionise-life-for-struggling-bangladeshi-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37273","title":{"rendered":"Salt-tolerant crops \u2018revolutionise\u2019 life for struggling Bangladeshi farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As sea levels rise, growers are employing innovative methods to adapt to saline soils<\/p>\n<p>Like millions of people across Bangladesh, Anita Bala, 45, relies on a small plot of land to feed her family.<\/p>\n<p>But for years nothing would grow. Her husband farmed shrimp in the salty ponds on their land, but the surrounding ground was barren. Bala\u2019s efforts to cultivate beans and pulses failed repeatedly. Eventually she gave up.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/24\/salt-tolerant-crops-revolutionise-life-for-struggling-bangladeshi-farmers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As sea levels rise, growers are employing innovative methods to adapt to saline soilsLike millions of people across Bangladesh, Anita Bala, 45, relies on a small plot of land to feed her family.But for years nothing would grow. Her husband farmed shrim&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1744,"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":[327,2331,65,455,653,1149,59,344,958,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-farming","category-food-security","category-global-development","category-nutrition","category-poverty","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37273","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\/1744"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37274,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37273\/revisions\/37274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}