His Fields Flooded Every Year. He Turned the Water Into Fish Farms

In Alekhargul, a village barely five kilometres from Badarpur town in Assam’s Sribhumi district, the monsoon arrived every year with the same uncertainty. The rivers that fed the region’s paddy fields would swell past their banks. Within days, fields that families depended on for rice would disappear under murky brown water for months. Homes were swept away. Livestock drowned. Farmers watched their only source of income disappear, year after year, with seemingly no way to stop it — or make use o

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