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Salma Akter Aduri’s family were hoping that growing cash crops would be the answer.

“We were growing a special type of potato called the ‘sunshine potato’, which can grow fast with good yields,” Salma recalls. “But the amount we had to sell was so small, we just couldn’t sell them at a profitable price.”

Salma and her family are potato farmers from Rangpur in northwestern Bangladesh. This region is prone to destructive monsoon floods and seasonal drought, and