Sukumar Giri, a 61-year-old farmer, collects rice that was laid out for drying, as his wife, Sita Rani Giri, 55, walks to her house on Ghoramara. The island’s inhabitants were once predominantly dependent on agriculture, with most families farming rice and betel leaves. But cyclones in 2020 and 2021 flooded the fields with water high in saline, making the soil barren and leaving many people struggling

Source: theguardian.com