I tried this in similar conditions in a marsh in Hawaii. We built a mound of hyacinths about two meters wide, three meters long, and one meter tall. After about two weeks it shrunk down in height and we planted. A couple weeks later that it continued to shrink and the entire island sank. How do you prevent the islands from sinking?
Excellent idea. Thanks for sharing. .I hope this methods spreads in the Haore / Beel areas widely. In Burma, at the Lake Inlee, they have apparently done these for a very long time..
yes, this is traditional practices in Central southern parts of Bangladesh since immemorial time. Development & extension organisation like HELVETAS has made some improvement and promoted these to others parts.....
excellent idea ... As I understood that this bed can be used up to 8 months only... just wondering whether one can use discarded pet bottle bellow the floating garden to enhance the lifetime. Pet bottle will provide necessary support and prevent the bed from disintegration. The bed can be used repeatedly for longer time after little works on the upper surface.
@@MistressOP Ooo smart, closing the floating bed with willows would essentially create a "fence" so that when the bed deteriorates, it doesn't get washed out, but instead builds up over time. In theory anyway. The only way to know for sure is to try it. 😊 Awesome thinking. 👌
@@ladylyssa5130 dead bamboo floats it's hollow. It's how we make floating islands. It also lasts longer than the system they are currently using. You pop the willow on top of it. and since it's always moving the roots air prune of sorts .. if you have fish in the water.
Path Ray Let's stay in touch. Please share your ideas as I would like to start the same model in my village, which is on the bank of biggest freshwater lake of north east, Loktak lake, Manipur. On our bank side, which is patta land, we used to do cultivation. But since 1984, it is under water due to induction of one hydro electric project. But warter is covered by thick grass which has been floating since. Let's share our ideas in details via email. Thanks and regards Ranjan, Manipur nauthikham2014@gmail.com
sorry for the late response.. For the first time it is maximum for a year. In the 2nd time if you can use some addition and it would be for another year. This process will lead you permanent floating beds for years.....no need to prepare these. In Bangladesh there are some river place where we have this time of permanent floating beds. In China I have seen some.
Since the flow of river pulling the heat from above which mix with vapor raise up from water make good nutrients for plant growth. .look at most of navy guy alway had better temperament than army guy for this reason
This is fantastic! I'm just wondering, are there any measures in place to prevent the overuse, and therefore possible extinction, of the water hyacinths used to make the beds, or to protect the ecosystems in these pools? Also, do you do integrated fish/duck farming alongside the floating beds, or does multiple farmers sharing the same pool make that impossible?
Water hyacinths grow like and invasive weed and will take over a waterway. By using them they are actually helping the environment by keeping it thinned out.
water hyacinths are in no danger of becoming extinct. the things spread like wildfire. over here in florida someone dumped a couple in our waters about a decade ago and we've never been able to get rid of them. they're literally everywhere. not only that, but they starve the water of oxygen and encourage pest insects like mosquitoes to grow there. farmers destroying the hyacinth is actually doing the environment a favor
- Water hyacinth is the worst weed in Bangladesh. Water hyacinth can spread 100 fold in a water body every month. However, it has many many uses, this floating bed is one of them. Other uses include biofuel, handicraft, fertilizer/mulch, fodder, and the flowers are used as food here. It even purifies the water. By using it for all these purposes, people are helping to keep the weed in control from choking water bodies. - There is no harm inflicted on fish through this process. So, fish farming can work fine. - Ducks can also be integrated but as mentioned, the beds only must be fenced with nets as ducks can damage seedlings.
Water Hyacinth is the worst weed in Bangladesh. By using it, it is being kept in control. And it is not native nor a keystone species in Bangladesh, it is native to the Amazon basin.
This is an old technique developed FIRST by the Burmese people at Lake Inle inside Burma as featured in a National Geographic magazine issue in June, 1974. BURMA'S LEG ROWERS AND FLOATING FARMS. The other old technique is the Incan chinampas developed by the Inca's ancestors. Nothing new here except the Bangladesh people did not adapt the Burmese's floating farms at Lake Inle inside Burma nor did the Bangladesh people did not adapt the Inca's chinampa techniques. BOTH OF WHICH ARE THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD! THE WORLD'S 1ST ORGANIC AQUAPONIC SYSTEM!
Very nice work for the poor people of our country. Thanks a lot
This is a great instructional video. Thanks. :-)
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Bangladesh is a amazing country.
Try korebo lagbo
Excellent n hard work.
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I tried this in similar conditions in a marsh in Hawaii. We built a mound of hyacinths about two meters wide, three meters long, and one meter tall. After about two weeks it shrunk down in height and we planted. A couple weeks later that it continued to shrink and the entire island sank. How do you prevent the islands from sinking?
they are using bamboo raft as planting meda foundation
Excellent idea.
Thanks for sharing.
.I hope this methods spreads in the Haore / Beel areas widely.
In Burma, at the Lake Inlee, they have apparently done these for a very long time..
yes, this is traditional practices in Central southern parts of Bangladesh since immemorial time. Development & extension organisation like HELVETAS has made some improvement and promoted these to others parts.....
this is inded not a new idea, it is an ancestral first aquaponic growing systeme use in many country in south east asia, india...
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wow!
excellent idea ... As I understood that this bed can be used up to 8 months only... just wondering whether one can use discarded pet bottle bellow the floating garden to enhance the lifetime. Pet bottle will provide necessary support and prevent the bed from disintegration. The bed can be used repeatedly for longer time after little works on the upper surface.
yes, you are right
Explain more
Dont do that, not healty at all.
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Very much like chinampas from the Aztecs, except they grow willow trees along the edges to stabilize the floating gardens.
i think you could combine the two styles and it will still float. using bamboo willow and that. making for something more stable and last longer.
@@MistressOP Ooo smart, closing the floating bed with willows would essentially create a "fence" so that when the bed deteriorates, it doesn't get washed out, but instead builds up over time. In theory anyway. The only way to know for sure is to try it. 😊 Awesome thinking. 👌
@@ladylyssa5130 dead bamboo floats it's hollow. It's how we make floating islands. It also lasts longer than the system they are currently using. You pop the willow on top of it. and since it's always moving the roots air prune of sorts .. if you have fish in the water.
@@MistressOP Perfect
these beds are often moved along the river to transport easily, so they dont grow big trees
Good process
Thank you!
thanks
We are going to do the same in our Kerala.
Path Ray
Let's stay in touch. Please share your ideas as I would like to start the same model in my village, which is on the bank of biggest freshwater lake of north east, Loktak lake, Manipur. On our bank side, which is patta land, we used to do cultivation. But since 1984, it is under water due to induction of one hydro electric project. But warter is covered by thick grass which has been floating since. Let's share our ideas in details via email.
Thanks and regards
Ranjan, Manipur
nauthikham2014@gmail.com
Please share your experiences.
Trying to grow in kochuripana.
Please can I get a training material on this
how long do these last? .. like years...? like the ones in Mexico or just for that season or two?
sorry for the late response.. For the first time it is maximum for a year. In the 2nd time if you can use some addition and it would be for another year. This process will lead you permanent floating beds for years.....no need to prepare these. In Bangladesh there are some river place where we have this time of permanent floating beds. In China I have seen some.
Since the flow of river pulling the heat from above which mix with vapor raise up from water make good nutrients for plant growth. .look at most of navy guy alway had better temperament than army guy for this reason
Xochimilco chinampas México city., Alv.,!!!!!
no this not chiniampas it is indian floting garden, not the same!!
This is fantastic! I'm just wondering, are there any measures in place to prevent the overuse, and therefore possible extinction, of the water hyacinths used to make the beds, or to protect the ecosystems in these pools? Also, do you do integrated fish/duck farming alongside the floating beds, or does multiple farmers sharing the same pool make that impossible?
Water hyacinths grow like and invasive weed and will take over a waterway. By using them they are actually helping the environment by keeping it thinned out.
In Bangladesh, poor and landless people make floating beds on public water bodies.
water hyacinths are in no danger of becoming extinct. the things spread like wildfire. over here in florida someone dumped a couple in our waters about a decade ago and we've never been able to get rid of them. they're literally everywhere. not only that, but they starve the water of oxygen and encourage pest insects like mosquitoes to grow there. farmers destroying the hyacinth is actually doing the environment a favor
- Water hyacinth is the worst weed in Bangladesh. Water hyacinth can spread 100 fold in a water body every month. However, it has many many uses, this floating bed is one of them. Other uses include biofuel, handicraft, fertilizer/mulch, fodder, and the flowers are used as food here. It even purifies the water. By using it for all these purposes, people are helping to keep the weed in control from choking water bodies.
- There is no harm inflicted on fish through this process. So, fish farming can work fine.
- Ducks can also be integrated but as mentioned, the beds only must be fenced with nets as ducks can damage seedlings.
should use ducks to weed before planting then fence it off less work that way
@LagiNaLangAko23 ducks also damage the plants. weeds are not that much to control. after first harvest no weeds are seen.
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is it really floating?
Yes it is.
আমি একজন অনার্স পাস করা শি্ক্ষিত যুবক, কৃষি কাজ করতে পছন্দ করি কিন্তু সরকারি বেসরকারি কোন হেল্প পাচ্ছি না
WOW, farming without owning/ rent a land with unlimited water supply. i can see the problem... it polluting the lake with fertilizer
it also increase food for cat fish. it provides aeration to the water.
Wil the disappearance of a significant number of water hyacinths reduce water quality or cause an environmental imbalance?
it is beneficial to environment. Water hyacinths is abundance in Bangladesh.
Water Hyacinth is the worst weed in Bangladesh. By using it, it is being kept in control. And it is not native nor a keystone species in Bangladesh, it is native to the Amazon basin.
in Bangladeshi ??
yaap!
This is an old technique developed FIRST by the Burmese people at Lake Inle inside Burma as featured in a National Geographic magazine issue in June, 1974. BURMA'S LEG ROWERS AND FLOATING FARMS. The other old technique is the Incan chinampas developed by the Inca's ancestors. Nothing new here except the Bangladesh people did not adapt the Burmese's floating farms at Lake Inle inside Burma nor did the Bangladesh people did not adapt the Inca's chinampa techniques. BOTH OF WHICH ARE THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD! THE WORLD'S 1ST ORGANIC AQUAPONIC SYSTEM!
Yes, you are right. this is traditional practices in some places. We have introduced this training materials for new places, where they can adapt.
do you offer volunteer opportunities?
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