Paddy and Duck Mixed Farming

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.

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.

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.