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Cultivating lotus on raised beds in flood prone areas, Viet Nam

Year of publication 2012

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Cultivating lotus in raised beds is a local adaptation practice in flood prone areas of the Quang Tri province of north central Vietnam. Communities traditionally collected lotus seeds from plants grown in common water bodies and sold them in markets. However, there was no initiative to further develop, promote and disseminate this practice. The practice of raised beds has been recognized as suitable for broader replication in flood prone areas only recently, and communities have thus started to engage in cultivating lotus also in low lying flood prone areas. The objective of lotus cultivation on raised beds is to ensure production at a time when cultivation would normally be impossible, providing employment opportunities and household income also during flooding periods.

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