🦆What are ducks doing in rice fields?🌾 Helping to make farming more #sustainable! Watch to learn more about an effective #NatureBasedSolution 🍃
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Jan 5, 2020 · 2:31 PM UTC

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DUCKS 🦆... Vineyards use them too. 🦆🦆🦆❤️❤️❤️.
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Letting ducks feed on slugs etc. in rice fields, subsequently enriching soil with their faeces, is good principle & fits with circular agriculture. However, it also is risk for infectious pathogen transfer between domestic & wild ducks, & risk increases with production intensity.
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We have recently proposed this method for adoption in Sindh province of Pakistan.
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This is great
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We’ll need lots of ducks to control pests on the rice needed to feed the billions of people for whom it’s a staple. Better to use existing natural locally tailored processes like enhanced field margins to support natural pest regulators eg wasps see nature.com/articles/nplants2…

Multi-country evidence that crop diversification promotes ecological intensification of agriculture

Nature Plants - Current food production systems are heavily dependent on synthetic inputs that threaten the environment and human wellbeing. Results from multi-site field experiments in Thailand,...

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Ancient and natural Animal and human 💜
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pesticides? even organic farmers still polluting their fields with (bio) #diesel every year. Will soon stop with a #carbontax for ALL vehicles in #Germany starting with €0,25/tn #CO2 and later in #Austria with new government incl. @Gruene_Austria #CO2steuer #CO2abgabe
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