Credit: Fidele Kampayana (Rwanda):
The photos show cut plants piled in the corner of a fish pond during its decomposition (green manure). Cut plants when piled up in pond water, they rot and decompose easily offering optimum environments for bacterial growth. Also, as plants decompose, its contents of nutrients are released enhancing fish production through the growth of plankton (phyto and zooplankton). Live plants serve also in the fixation of pond dikes. Therefore, farm plants (live or cut) may play double roles in dike fixation and in fish nutrition.
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