{"id":33851,"date":"2021-05-19T23:01:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T23:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=33851"},"modified":"2021-05-19T23:01:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T23:01:25","slug":"could-an-app-help-protect-vietnams-paddy-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=33851","title":{"rendered":"Could an app help protect Vietnam&#8217;s paddy fields?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Vietnam is one of the biggest producers and exporters of rice in the world, but the livelihood of some farmers is under threat.<\/p>\n<p>Seawater intrusion has long been a problem in the low-lying Mekong Delta, where more than half of the country&#8217;s rice is grown. During the dry season, the salty water can leach into fields and ruin crops. It&#8217;s thought rising sea levels are exacerbating the problem. <\/p>\n<p>The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the government of Vietnam have launched a smartphone app, which monitors the saltiness of the water. The data helps rice farmers decide when to flush out the paddy fields with freshwater to protect their crops. <\/p>\n<p><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video by Jennifer Green<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/w3ct1lrv\" class=\"ssrcss-9nsdc6-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Digital Planet<\/a> for more on this story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-57170773\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam is one of the biggest producers and exporters of rice in the world, but the livelihood of some farmers is under threat. Seawater intrusion has long been a problem in the low-lying Mekong Delta, where more than half of the country&#8217;s rice is grown. During the dry season, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/p09j069l.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}