There’s little doubt about the nobility of the Ashrayan-2 housing project. Under the project, houses will be constructed and handed over to destitute families as the prime minister’s gift, allowing them to live in comfort.
Native medicinal trees were once abundant in the country. But with the passage of time, they have either vanished or are on the verge of extinction, mainly due to indiscriminate deforestation.
If you cruise through the Ujantia canal up to its estuary with the Matamuhuri river of Cox’s Bazar, you will see the last remnants of a mangrove forest, almost obliterated from the country’s south-eastern landscape.
A long drought followed by a strong freeze in 2020 damaged the coffee harvest in Brazil, the world’s biggest producer and exporter of the crop. To take on the challenges brought on by the changing climate, coffee farmers in the Cerrado have joined a climate-smart agriculture program.