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| Paddy Field |
It is known to
all that paddy is one of the mostly used food grains all over the world. More
than 3 billion people which are nearly the half of the world’s total population
depend on rice for survival. Asia is the motherland of rice. About 91% of the
total production of rice of the world comes from Asia. But to meet up the
increasing demand of rice International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is
always trying to invent various types of hybrid paddy seeds. Farmers are also trying
to use their land most properly by mixed farming to produce more than before.
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| Duck Farming |
On the other
hand, meat is another favorite and too much nutritious food item to all. Various
animals and birds are the sources of meat. For huge demand as well as high price
of meat people are influenced to make animal and birds farm. Among the birds
chicken and duck are the most remarkable. Chicken farm needs pure dry land
where as duck farm may be established in both dry and watery land. Water land,
specially fixed water land, is the best for duck farming.
In that case, mixing
up paddy and duck farm work very well to increase the total production and also
to save the use of land. In order to make a Paddy-Duck mixed farm the farmer
needs a little structural change of his land. He needs to dig a small pond at
one side of his land. The rest of the land remains the same as before and used
for paddy cultivation. Ducks are kept in the pond. They are protected from wild
animals by a fence. In day time the fences are opened for the ducks to go about
for food over the total land. Paddy cultivation always needs water. So, the ducks
have no problem collect food from the paddy field.
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| Paddy-Duck Mixed Farming |
This Paddy-Duck
mixed farming not only maximizes the production but also have various types of
benefits. Firstly, the ducks moves over the paddy field daily. As a result weeds
cannot grow in the field. Farmer can save the money that would be gone for
cleaning the weeds. Secondly, various types of insects attack the paddy plants.
Ducks eat many of them. In this way the cost of insecticides is reduced. Side
by side the cost of feeding the ducks is also reduced. Thirdly, when the ducks
moves over the field, they give up their feces there. It works as the organic
fertilizer for the paddy plants. Thus the farmers’ cost of fertilizer is also
saved. Fourthly, for these duck feces the fertility of the land increases. After
harvesting the paddy when other crops are grown in that field the production of
those crops also increases for that fertility made before from the duck feces.
So, we can confidently say that Paddy-Duck mixed
farming decreases the cost of production, ensures maximum utilization of land,
increases the volume of production, as well as increases the profit of the
farmers. For these lots of facilities and banalities Paddy-Duck mixed farming
is becoming too much favorite among the farmers.
