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In The Sunderbans, Salt-Tolerant Paddy Varieties Help Farmers Deal With Soil Salinity

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Tuhin Mondol, 26, picks up a dried lump of earth in his hands. It crumbles between his fingers and falls to the ground. “This is how you tell the soil is saline. Normal soil won’t crumble like this,” he says. He owns 13 bighas of land in Shibpur village, Dhablat mouza, Sagar Island, where he grows paddy, potato and onion along with his father Ajit Mondol, who has been farming the same land for...

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