Valley floor paddey cultivation through traditional system
Type: Approaches
Creation: 2008-12-31 00:00 Updated: 2017-08-03 08:43
Compilers: Niaz Ahmed Khan
Reviewers: Fabian Ottiger
Country/ region/ locations where the Approach has been applied
- Country: Bangladesh
- Further specification of location (e.g. municipality, town, etc.), if relevant: Chittagong
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Description of the SLM Approach
Short description of the Approach
The traditional approach of valley floor terraced rice cultivation at individual household level for their subsistance.
Detailed description of the Approach
Aims / objectives: This approach basically concentrated on paddy cultivation for household consumption. All members of an individual family provide labours for execution of vartious activities with the aim to produce rice. The stages of implementation are site selection, land preparation (slash and clearing, weeding etc), construction of bunds and trenches, dressing of the hill sides, levelling of the lands and crop cultivation. Male and female play different role in the activities. Male farmers are involved in earth cutting, construction of bunds and trenches whereas the females help in seed sowing and harvesting. The farmers usually used traditional tools viz. dao, axe, spade etc.