Agroecological Co-Design Knowledge Exchange in Andhra Pradesh, India
Tuesday, 2024/01/09 | 08:12:57
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CGIAR Jan. 5 2024
Key highlights:
11 APCNF representatives participated in an exposure visit programme to learn breeding and cultivation technology of Mola fish, selected to be a suitable biological model for agroecological intervention.
Mola seeds given to 21 APCNF’s integrated farming systems (IFS) to accelerate agroecological transition process through integrated rice fish farming system (IRFS).
The Integrated Rice Fish Farming System (IRFS) is popular in South and Southeast Asian countries. Promoting integrated rice-fish farming system is not only profitable but can also help with mitigation of climate changes, undernutrition, along with optimum land utilization (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119310). Rice and Fish can be produced together for making a healthy diet instead of producing rice as a monocrop. Mola / Amblypharyngodon mola is a popular micronutrient-rich small indigenous fish that grows well along with carps in ponds and rice fields.
WorldFish has developed a low-cost technology for cultivation of carps and mola in rice field connected pond ecosystems in Bangladesh to enhance production and productivity in a sustainable manner while simultaneously addressing the nutritional security of the local communities and additional income sources (https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/31). Under the CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology similar kind of work has been initiated in partnership with the Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) with an aim to create an impactful agroecological intervention, by introducing Mola fish in existing rice fish-based carp polyculture system.
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