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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. |
There appear to be two main types of rain-fed rice field. There are those that are situated on higher ground and are subject to “drying out” during periods of low rainfall and those that are situated in low-lying areas and are prone to flooding. Important culture and capture fisheries are found in the low-lying rice fields, but upland rice-fields (not highland rice-fields) are not separated by bunds and cannot retain water for long periods. But, upland rice-fields are important habitats for OAAs such as frogs, insects and rice field rats.
