Home
Search:
1146 feeds
357 categories
0 articles (<24 hours)
36 registered users

Use the Mobile version
Mobile

Follow our Twitter feed

View our Linkpartners
Links

Username:
Password:

Register | Retrieve

General


RSS FeedsPainful misery: Vietnam salt farmers battered by climate change, imports
(WorldNews Asia)

 
 

19 may 2019 11:18:24

 
Painful misery: Vietnam salt farmers battered by climate change, imports
(WorldNews Asia)
 


Hanoi: The salt farmers of Hon Khoi rise before dawn as they have for generations, fanning out across shallow seawater pools in southern Vietnam to harvest the precious mineral, hoping for a better season than the last. The work is punishing and the incomes unstable, subject to seesawing demand swayed by foreign imports, and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns. Many people in the sleepy seaside town in Khanh Hoa province have worked much of their lives in the salt fields -- an Instagram hotspot where workers wearing conical hats ferry mountains of the saline crystals in bamboo baskets along reflective ponds against a setting sun. They shuffle carefully along narrow ledges...


 
9 viewsCategory: General > Asia
 
Two trains collide in Philippines, 34 injured
(WorldNews Asia)
Hope of finding oil and gas in Arabian Sea in Pakistan dashed
(WorldNews Asia)
 
 
blog comments powered by Disqus


Copyright © 2008 - 2024 Indigonet Services B.V.. Contact: Tim Hulsen. Read here our privacy notice.
Other websites of Indigonet Services B.V.: Nieuws Vacatures Science Tweets Nachrichten