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✅Khazan Farming System- estuarine ✅agricultural system
🔴Where ?- Goa -Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary
✅How does it work?
Estuarine ecosystem= Saltwater may penetrate- constructed bunds to avoid this- look at the pic.
🔴These channels would fill in with the oncoming tide and bring with them fish, crab and shrimp, and the gates would automatically shut when the water level was equal on both sides.
🔴This prevented the water from overflowing into the fields used to grow paddy and which has a low tolerance to salt.
🔴When the tide receded, these gates would open outwards automatically, allowing the water to drain out.
✅Benefits of Khazan?
🔴Every bit of space was precious and used efficiently — the bunds were used to grow a variety of vegetables.
🔴The Khazan system allowed for the farmer and the fisher to harmoniously coexist and was the key to sustaining what is considered Goa’s staple — fish, curry and rice.
🔴Where ?- Goa -Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary
✅How does it work?
Estuarine ecosystem= Saltwater may penetrate- constructed bunds to avoid this- look at the pic.
🔴These channels would fill in with the oncoming tide and bring with them fish, crab and shrimp, and the gates would automatically shut when the water level was equal on both sides.
🔴This prevented the water from overflowing into the fields used to grow paddy and which has a low tolerance to salt.
🔴When the tide receded, these gates would open outwards automatically, allowing the water to drain out.
✅Benefits of Khazan?
🔴Every bit of space was precious and used efficiently — the bunds were used to grow a variety of vegetables.
🔴The Khazan system allowed for the farmer and the fisher to harmoniously coexist and was the key to sustaining what is considered Goa’s staple — fish, curry and rice.