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As the proverb in Indonesia; while
diving drinking water. This has been practiced by Tovan, MicroAid Projects CFP volunteer
and the
farmers in Rime Raya Village, Bener Meriah District, Aceh Province of
Indonesia. They grow rice by SRI method (System of Rice Intensification)
in their
village and use the same land for breeding the Nila fish.
Yes, SRI rice paddy fields are
flooded requiring sufficient water (no more and no less). The water is also used by farmers for
the cultivation of Nila fish on the same land.
Great land uses two for one!
Tovan and the farmers had been trained on micro projects funded by MicroAid donor
in January 2010 ago and right now they're waiting for the harvest time in the
coming days. The concept of land use for two different products at the same
time has never carried out by local farmers. When the program is
successful, then this concept will be passed on to farmers in other villages
and even beyond the province of Aceh.
See "Tovan - a MicroAid Projects Organic Entrepreneur" web site as a part of MicroAid Projects web site.
Foot
note:
Tovan
Marhennata is a graduate student who has decided to take his agricultural
skills back to the village where he grew up. Tovan wants to become a successful
organic entrepreneur and at the same time eradicate poverty for the community
of his birth.
Aceh,
and particular the highland areas where Tovan is working, has been racked by
conflict for decades. Tovan is
determined to show a peaceful example of how poverty and hardship can overcome
without conflict and weapons but by hand hoes and exciting new smallholder's
technologies. These technologies are
developed in other areas but now available globally through the power of the
Internet. SRI Rice growing techniques
were developed in Madagascar in the late 1990s.
MicroAid
is sponsoring Tovan as Community Facilitation Partner in this challenge.
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