Environment
Results of Asian Press Photo 2023
Gold
Chittagong's Water Logging
Chittagong is known as the commercial capital of Bangladesh. The residents of different areas of Chittagong are very familiar with the problem of water logging during rainy season. A moderate to heavy rainfall is enough to inundate main roads, lanes and by-lanes of both old and new parts of the city. As a major economic zone its economy hampers a lot during rainy season.
The worst sufferers included the residents of Bakalia Solosahar, GEC Moor (crossing), WASA Crossing, Badurtala, Halishahar, Agrabad, Hat Hazari, Boalkhali, Baddarhat, Muradpur, Probartak Moor, Kapasgola, Panchlais, Chaktai Baddarhat, Muradpur,.The sufferings of common people and school children knows no bound. Water logging also causes various diseases such as malaria, dengue, diarrhea etc.
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Story Vertical Farming
Arie Basuki, Indonesian, merdeka.com
Various global problems in the future are closely related to agriculture, the environment, society and resources in line with the increase in the world's human population and climate change. Issues regarding agriculture or food security have become one of the critical matters of discussion in recent years. The increasingly widespread cities that grow in Indonesia cause a reduction in agricultural land, not to mention the issue of agricultural land ownership. Indonesian farmers on average only cultivate 0.3 hectares of rice fields, far from the ideal of around two hectares. Insufficient domestic food supplies make Indonesia have to continue to import, often to the point of scarcity.
One of the breakthroughs being made at this time is the development of vertical farming or multilevel agriculture where plants are planted vertically as an effort to minimize the use of agricultural land using two main principles, namely hydroponic farming and verticulture farming. Hydroponics is a technique of cultivating plants by utilizing water without using soil and places more emphasis on meeting the nutritional needs of plants. The need for water in hydroponic cultivation is less than the need for water in traditional agriculture that uses soil. So the hydroponic technique is suitable for areas with limited water supply. While verticulture is a farming technique in a narrow space by utilizing the vertical plane as a place for farming which is done in stages (Temmy, 2003). Marsema Kaka Mone (2006),
For example, in an old warehouse that was converted into a vertical farming area owned by Sentra Farm in Cimanggis, Depok, West Java. Various vegetables such as curly lettuce, romaine, oklave greens, dumplings, kailan and others are cultivated in rooms where the light and temperature remain stable. The advantage of vertical farming which was just developed in the last year during the Covid-19 pandemic is pesticide-free with a harvest period of only 30 days with an average yield of 20 to 30 kg of vegetables/day with prices between IDR 15,000 to IDR 30,000/250 grams.
Bronze
Flood Shelter
Muhammad Amdad Hossain, Bangladeshi
As a result of climate change in Jatrapur Union of Kurigram District, Bangladesh Incessant rains have flooded thousands of houses in the surrounding area, leaving many people homeless. One such homeless family took shelter on the roof of a small damaged house hoping to survive. Their only diet is dry food and water. Which they usually take as relief. It is a very difficult situation for them.
Bronze
China’s record-breaking drought in Poyang Lake
Wu Xiaohui, Chinese
Since the beginning of July, 2022, China’s Jiangxi province has been suffering from drought. The province issued a red alert for water supply for the first time on September 23, 2022 after Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake, saw its water level fall to the lowest since records began in 1951, which attributed the drop to the high temperatures, a lack of rain and insufficient water inflow from the Yangtze River.
These photos taken on September and October of 2022 is trying to depict how biodiversity and people’s lives in the area were affected by extreme drought through the photographer’s lens.