Increase Productivity in Paddy Rice Field: Integrating Cover Crop, Dry-Season Cropping, and Duck Raising

Integrating paddy rice cultivation, duck raising, and dry-season cropping is an effective approach to sustainable farming. It increases rice yields through natural fertilization, boosts income with diversified production, and improves soil fertility using green manure, legume residues, and duck manure. This system also reduces labor as ducks control weeds and pests, decreases weed and pest problems, and minimizes the need for chemical inputs, fostering a healthier environment.

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Title Increase Productivity in Paddy Rice Field: Integrating Cover Crop, Dry-Season Cropping, and Duck Raising
Description Integrating paddy rice cultivation, duck raising, and dry-season cropping is an effective approach to sustainable farming. It increases rice yields through natural fertilization, boosts income with diversified production, and improves soil fertility using green manure, legume residues, and duck manure. This system also reduces labor as ducks control weeds and pests, decreases weed and pest problems, and minimizes the need for chemical inputs, fostering a healthier environment.
Agroecology Category
  • Integrated systems
  • Animal health
  • Input reduction and recycling
  • Natural resources governance
Agroecology Keyword
  • Integrated crop livestock system
  • System of rice intensification
  • Integrated animal health
  • Bio-fertilizer
  • Compost
  • Input reduction
Contributing organisations DALAM, PAFO, DAFO
Author DALAM, PAFO, DAFO, GRET and CIRAD
Year 2024
Type of document Success stories & cases
Language
  • English
  • Lao
Spatial Information
Country Lao PDR
Administrative Level 1 Xiengkhouang
Administrative Level 2
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