Integrated rice + fish + horticulture + agroforestry + duckery system
One acre irrigated lowland rice land
developed to an integrated rice + fish+ horticulture + agroforestry farming
system, is suitable for adoption in rain fed lowland ecosystem of North Eastern
Coastal plain, East and South-Eastern Coastal plain and North east Ghats
Area Requirement for the model: One-hectare area
Enterprise and area allotment:
Allocation of 30% of the area is converted to two
rice + fish fields (600 m2 each with a refuge of 15% area . 30% area
is developed into two nursery fish ponds of equal size of fingerlings rearing
and remaining 40% (1500 m2) area is utilized as bunds for growing
vegetables, horticultural crops and silvicultural trees. With intervention
includes rice-rice in rice-fish field, fruits, vegetables, root and tuber
crops, silvicultural crops on field bunds, rearing of fish fingerlings and grow
out fish in respective pond refuges. Mushroom, honey bees and vermicompost on
field bunds throughout the year.
Income: Two rice
crop yields 1000-1200 kg of grain, 1.5-2.0 t of rice straw, fish fingerlings
worth of Rs. 4000- 5000 and grow out fish of Rs. 20,000 per year. From the bird
unit 40-50 kg of meat is produced every two – three months which give a net
return of Rs. 8000-10000 per year besides mushrooms, vegetables, pulses and
fodders.This system in establishment years provides net earnings of Rs.
1,500-3,300 per month besides, high employment generation of 450-500 man days
per year.