Aerial view of traditional floating garden and farmers cultivate vegetable, navigating the channels between by boat in Pirojpur, Barisal, Bangladesh.
In the south western part of Bangladesh many farmers use floating rafts made from invasive water hyacinths to grow vegetables during the monsoon season. Eight months of the year, this land goes under water. Farmers grow their crops on long, thin vegetable gardens which float on a river. Each strip of land is between 200ft and 300ft long, and farmers cultivate up to 300 types of vegetable, navigating the channels between them by boat. The gardens rise and fall with the swelling waters of nearby rivers, which restrict the time that crops can be grown and make land a precious commodity for local residents. The area in Pirojpur, Bangladesh covering 400 hectares, shows the extraordinary array of crops including beans, beet, pumpkins, okra, aubergine, cucumber, red amaranthus, gourds, turnip, cauliflowers, turmeric and chillies. The 200 year old technique was initially adopted by farmers in the region during the flooding season as a result of the changing climate
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Location: Pirojpur, Barisal, Bangladesh.
Photo credit: © Azim Khan Ronnie / Alamy / Afripics
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