Natural Resources Aquatic Resources Rain-fed and irrigated lowland rice Recommendations : Rain-fed & irrigated lowland rice|
Rain-fed & irrigated lowland rice |
Provide fisher-farmers with a broad-based training program at village / Kum Ban / District level with an upgraded knowledge base with respect to using pesticides and herbicides and provide them with a decision making process to abandon their use altogether and possibly adopt IPM methods to combat pests. This would be especially aimed at fisher-farmers that are interested in enhancing or beginning rice-field culture / capture fisheries. |
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Provide training and information to fisher-farmers at village / Kum Ban / District level on correct species of rice to grow for those fisher-farmers that want to enhance or begin rice-field culture / capture fisheries. |
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Provide training and information to fisher-farmers at village / Kum Ban /District level on other management techniques such as rice-field physical modifications and knowledge on “on-farm” inputs for those fisher-farmers that want to enhance or begin rice-field culture / capture fisheries. |
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Introduce the concepts of raising fish in a polyculture AND stocking the correct ratios in rice fields. |
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Introduce the concepts of nursing fish in nylon hapas prior to release, and introduce the concept of breeding fish in nylon hapas in modified areas of flooded rice fields. |