Family Farming Knowledge Platform

Traditional floating garden practices for vegetable production

The floating garden practice is a local indigenous production system the successful in the wetland/submerged/flooded areas in the selected south and south-western districts (Pirojpur, Barisal and Gopalganj) of Bangladesh. Floating garden agricultural practices have been adopted by the local farmers for the past two centuries. This technology describes in detail how to construct and manage floating gardens for production of different crops (vegetables and spices).

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Author: Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) and Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)- FAO
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Organization: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Year: 2020
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Country/ies: Bangladesh
Geographical coverage: Asia and the Pacific
Type: Practices
Content language: English
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