Source: British Broadcasting Corporation
Country: Bangladesh
Page last updated at 23:10 GMT, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 0:10 UK
By James Melik
Reporter, Business Daily, BBC World Service
Soggy fields surround Wasib Uddin's village when he wakes at 0530, yet he is not unduly concerned.
Usually the water evaporates in the heat within a couple of hours, so he gets up to release his livestock, which has been locked up for the night to protect it from wild dogs and rustlers.
The ducks flap their wings as they head for the water, the cows and sheep are more reluctant as they walk down the concrete steps that Mr Uddin has built from the front of his house to the land he owns below.
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