Floating Farms of Bangladesh - BBC

[bujhee kom]

"Farmers in Bangladesh survive the monsoon by building floating farms" - BBC
01 Jan 2019

Bangladesh is home to the world's largest river delta and prone to frequent, devastating flooding. Farmers here are expanding an ancient technique of building floating farms that simply rise and fall with the swelling waters. In times of rising sea levels.
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Filmmaker: Paul Myles


https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-as...floating-farms

[aklemalp]

This is not a bad idea at all.

''Necessity is the mother of all inventions."

A simple solution.

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Welcome back Zaved bhai

[roman]

Good to see you back Javed bhai..Really missed you

[bujhee kom]

Right on, aklemalp and Roman.
As you saw the short clip, the farmer Mr. Haripodo explains the process of creating these floating beds with water hyacinths and his family members show us how to make the mud balls to house the harvest plant seeds. And he tells us that our forefathers did this, worked through this method for (hundreds) of years. This is no new invention. These farmers in southern Bangladesh delta mastered the method and making the harvest go further.

The Aztecs are known to have mastered this method in the lakes of Texcoco and Xaltocan around Teotihuacan and Azcapotzalco -the gardening methods known as the Chinampas.
If you are interested, you can check it out by looking them up and reading.

[Yankees]

Welcome back BK uncle!

[aklemalp]

Originally Posted by bujhee kom
Right on, aklemalp and Roman.
As you saw the short clip, the farmer Mr. Haripodo explains the process of creating these floating beds with water hyacinths and his family members show us how to make the mud balls to house the harvest plant seeds. And he tells us that our forefathers did this, worked through this method for (hundreds) of years. This is no new invention. These farmers in southern Bangladesh delta mastered the method and making the harvest go further.

The Aztecs are known to have mastered this method in the lakes of Texcoco and Xaltocan around Teotihuacan and Azcapotzalco -the gardening methods known as the Chinampas.
If you are interested, you can check it out by looking them up and reading.

It's really amazing that different people in the past have the same idea about how things how. Parallelism.

Like the story of pi.

Excellent stuff BK bhai