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[Angela Manno <amanno@angelamanno.com>]

Don't chickens love slugs?
On Mar 20, 2010, at 10:13 PM, Anil Bhattarai wrote:

> I met a great farmer friend in Nepal's Chitwan valley--who told me
> about a fascinating practice he was doing--simple. His farming is
> perhaps the most integrated in terms of animal, fishery, bio-gas,
> wildlife, grain, vegetable, mushroom, piegon, chickens, goats that I
> have ever seen--even more than I initiated together with other family
> members in Ajamvari Farm (www.ajamvarifarm.org).
>
> His area is always infested with slugs--and as far as I remember they
> began to appear in Chitwan valley.
>
> What he told me amazed the most. Yes, they still infest--however, he
> has discovered that they are great food for the fish he is raising in
> his pond. [I really wish I had some photos of his farm] So he pays
> nearby farmers to collect them from their field and busy them--10
> rupees a kilo--not a handsome sum, but still amazing way of converting
> a nuisance into economic resources for the farmers and himself.
>
> I thought this might be useful to others. At the moment I am not sure
> what kind of fish was he raising--and I can post details of those
> practices when I go and live in that village for one year for my ph.d.
> research on organic agriculture in Nepal.
>
> Best
> ANil
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> > Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:42:16 -0600
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> > Subject: [permaculture] organic slug control - with pigs!
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> Anil Bhattarai
> Programme in Planning
> University of Toronto
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