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Article

16 Feb 2005

Author:
Lucy Ash, BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents

Prawns: Bangladesh's mixed blessing

Tiger prawns are Bangladesh's second biggest export earner, but as the industry grows, so too do allegations of displacement, violence and environmental destruction...[Mohamed Farid, shrimp farm owner] flatly denied that anyone had been evicted to make way for his shrimp farm and he referred to the landless peasants as "bandits". [refers to Salam Seafoods]