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 MEULABOH, Indonesia (AP) - From atop the coconut tree where he fled to escape the onrushing water, Muhammad Yacob watched the tsunami turn his rice paddy into a briny, debris-strewn swamp.
Nine months later, Yacob and his wife are harvesting their best-ever crop — despite fears that salt water had poisoned the land.
"The sea water turned out to be a great fertilizer," said Yacob, 66, during a break from scything the green shoots and laying them in bunches on the stubble. "We are looking at yields twice as high as last year."
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