📰 Raising Rice and Fish Together Cuts Disease From Snails While Boosting Crop Yields by 25%
🗒 “By restoring native fish to rice fields, we may be able to reduce disease transmission while helping farmers produce more food and generate additional income."
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Raising Rice and Fish Together Cuts Disease From Snails While Boosting Crop Yields by 25%
The researchers introduced African Bonytongue and Nile tilapia into rice fields, native fish species that eat the snails which spread diseaseAndy Corbley (Good News Network)