Using Ducks Instead Of Pesticides? What A Terrific Initiative, Thailand

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Photo by Joel Oliveira on Unsplash Farmers in Thailand use armies of 10,000 “field chasing ducks” to eat their way through rice paddies after a harvest.

Have a look at this back-to-the-future farming practice in Thailand.

After rice harvest, the farmers release a myriad of ducks to clean up the area of pests and rice husks.

This has two benefits:

• feeding the ducks for little cost
• keeping the rice paddocks pest-free

As well as being kind to the planet, the farmers swear they have a better crop yield.

Read the indepth account here;

How farmers in Thailand are using armies of 10,000 ducks to keep rice paddies pest-free