[Ngo-sanrm] Vietnam uses ecological engineering to save rice | Environment | DW.DE | 21.04.2014
Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management Working Group
ngo-sanrm at ngocentre.org.vn
Tue Apr 22 09:19:46 ICT 2014
There is a hint of gold in the verdant rice fields that fill the horizon in Kien Giang province - a sign for the farmers here in the south west of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta that harvesting time is not far away. But along the paths between the paddies, known as bunds, there are also neat row of speckled color - yellow, orange and purple nectar flowers - that are not part of the typical pastoral scene here.
The floral borders are not for decoration though, they are part of an ecological engineering project aimed at encouraging the natural predators of harmful pests and thereby reducing the use of pesticides. In particular the project targets the brown planthopper, a winged insect which devastates rice crops across Asia by sucking the sap until the plants shrivel and die, causing discolored patches on the field known as hopper burn.
http://www.dw.de/vietnam-uses-ecological-engineering-to-save-rice/a-17571615
Margrit Schlosser, Ph.D.
Postal address: IPO Box 46
6 Dinh Le, Hanoi, Vietnam
Tel.: (+84 4) 372 645 87
Mobile: 01287193442
Email: margrit.schlosser at gmail.com
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