RICE FIELD FISH CULTURE IN THE LOWER CHIENGRAK-KLONG DAN IRRIGATION PROJECT AREA

Abstract

INTRODUCTION Rice field fish culture, as an intensive form of fish farming, has been practiced for a long time in Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, and India. Fish farming was started in Japan 100 years ago and has attained very good results during the last 50 years. For Thailand, this type of fish farming is a new occupation. If started about 1957, and is therefore only in the formative stage. The ways in which fish farming is conducted are similar to those used abroad. The dofferrences are only in the details. It is of in terest to note that rice field fish culture in Thailand Started in the Lower Chiengrak- Klong Dan Irrigation Project Area, which is a part of the alluvial Central Plain of the country, where one crop of rice is grown per year.