India s Desert Salt Farmers Feel The Heat From Climate Change By Abhaya SRIVASTAVA
04/15/21 AT 12:43 AM
Roshni Thakor left school to harvest salt from a sun-baked Indian desert, a backbreaking trade practised by her ancestors for centuries but now threatened by climate change.
For eight months every year, farmers toil in scorching heat to pump out briny water from handmade wells in a sparse corner of western Gujarat state. Unpredictable rainfall, rising temperatures and frequent dust storms have made it harder for salt farmers in India to eke out a living Photo: AFP / SAM PANTHAKY
A tonne of the resulting salt crystals fetches the meagre sum of 300 rupees ($4.00), but unpredictable rainfall, rising temperatures and frequent dust storms have slashed yields, and made it harder for Thakor and her family.
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Akshit Thakor and his twin sister Akshita had left their home after their father had scolded them
Rajkot: Twins who had gone missing since Sunday from their residence at Daulatpara locality near Junagadh Marketing Yard were found at Junagadh Civil Hospital on Tuesday. Police said Akshit Thakor and his twin sister Akshita Thakor, both aged 12, had left their home after their father Raju Thakor had scolded them.
Raju had reprimanded his children as they had spent his money to buy snacks for themselves and food for the puppy they had kept as their pet. Raju had left Ahmedabad after the death of his wife Salma and had come to live in Junagadh along with his children. Here he started working as a labourer. As no one was at home to take care of his children while he was away for work, he put both his children at Shishu Mangal children s home in Junagadh.