In Search of “White Gold”: Environmental and Agrarian Changes in Rural Bangladesh
In Search of “White Gold”: Environmental and Agrarian Changes in Rural Bangladesh
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寻找“白金”：孟加拉国农村的环境和农业变化
DOI：
10.1080/08941920801942255
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Md. Saidul Islam
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作者：
Md. Saidul Islam
孟加拉国的商业虾因其高跨国价值在当地被称为“白色黄金”。从历史上看，农民将虾养殖限制在海洋海岸线，因为虾需要大量的盐水来繁殖和成熟。然而，孟加拉国最近的事态发展表明，这一活动曾经纯粹是沿海性质的，可能很快就会成为过去。许多孟加拉国的稻农采用低盐度的种植系统，依靠海水或盐场的污水，这些污水用卡车运到内陆。这一创新，加上世界市场上大米的农场出场价低而虾的价格高，导致越来越多的稻农将稻田改为虾塘。由于农村经济与全球虾商品链的联系日益紧密，孟加拉国农村的环境和农业景观发生了重大变化。
Commercial shrimp in Bangladesh is locally known as “white gold” because of its high transnational value. Historically, farmers have confined shrimp culture to ocean coastlines because shrimp require large volumes of saltwater to reproduce and mature. Recent developments in Bangladesh suggest, however, that the once purely coastal nature of this activity could soon be a thing of the past. Many Bangladeshi rice farmers are adopting low-salinity culture systems that rely upon sea water or salt farm effluent that is trucked inland. This innovation, combined with a low farm gate price for rice and a high price for shrimp in the world market, has led increasing numbers of rice farmers to convert paddy fields to shrimp ponds. Because the rural economy is increasingly linked to the global shrimp commodity chain, it has generated significant changes in the environmental and agrarian landscapes of rural Bangladesh.