What is rice/fish farming?
Basically, fish are raised in a flooded rice field and farmers harvest both the fish and the rice. But while the term “rice/fish” is often thought to refer only to the simultaneous culture of rice and fish in one paddy, it in fact includes other methods, like the rotational system, where a crop of rice is followed by one of fish, or systems in which fish are raised in ponds adjacent to the rice, with water resources shared between the two. It’s an extremely efficient way of using the same land to produce both carbohydrates, in the grain, and animal protein, in the fish. Q. Are there other advantages? Well, to feed the fish you can simply rely on the aquatic plants and animals naturally occurring in the field. Supplemental feed doesn’t have to be purchased — it’s often agricultural by-products normally found on a farm — vegetable matter, manure, etc. And the fish help control weeds by eating or uprooting them, and also feed on insect and snail pests. Interestingly, pesticide use on ri
