The cracked and barren fields around the Chowfaldandi village in Cox's Bazar suggest that the season for salt cultivation has arrived. However, disheartened by low market prices of the daily essential, very few farmers are preparing their land for that purpose..According to farmers, prices

While salt production has been growing steadily over the years, the farmers in the coastal districts of Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar are apprehensive over whether their meagre profits would get any better.

Almost 16,000 desalination plants worldwide produce bigger-than-expected flows of highly salty waste water and toxic chemicals that are damaging the environment, a UN-backed study said on Monday.

Several thousand salt producers are happy seeing profits for the first time in three years after the government took up a policy