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fish rice rule (pawb.social)
submitted 1 year ago by Interstellar_1@pawb.social to c/196
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[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 year ago
[-] fiqusonnick 56 points 1 year ago
[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 48 points 1 year ago

It's amazing how much of biodiversity in agriculture boils down to "and then something poops on something else".

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are the fish congregating because they see the cameraperson? That looks way too high density.

[-] mxcory 12 points 1 year ago

They have possibly become trained to come towards a person who feeds them.

[-] smashboy@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

dO yUo LiKE iT?

[-] puchaczyk 11 points 1 year ago

One major problem with flooded rice fields is that it promotes growth of anaerobic bacteria that cause quite significant methane emission. Of course you can't forbid people from growing rice as a lot of people depends on it, but it's definitely a problem.

[-] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Apparently integrating fish like this reduces the methane emissions:

In California rice fields, golden shiner minnows introduced by the project have reduced methane coming off fallowed rice paddies by 64 percent.

https://www.wired.com/story/tiny-hungry-fish-fix-rice-global-warming-problem/

[-] fireweed@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Gotta squeeze in a wasabi crop for the sushi field to be complete

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Lots of these places are using ducks to control pests as well.

[-] TTimo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Same method, but I prefer crawfish.

[-] cupcakezealot 6 points 1 year ago

get a few cats on your farm too

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

so that's why ragusea made a video on ricefish

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