BSS, Dhaka :
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has recognised Bangladesh’s floating gardens, a unique hydroponics production system constructed with natural grasses and plants, as “Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) “.
The UN body also designated a trio of sites in Japan. These are: the sustainable river fisheries utilizing Sato-kawa system in Gifu, the Minabe-Tanabe Ume approach to growing apricots on nutrient-poor slopes in Wakayama and the Takachihogo-Shiibayama mountainous agriculture and forestry system in Miyazaki which allows agricultural and forestry production in a steep mountainous area.
The sites were officially recognized during a joint meeting of the GIAHS Steering and Scientific Committee at FAO headquarters in Rome on December 15, according to a message received here yesterday.
These new designations bring the number of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) to a total of 36 sites located in 15 countries in Africa, Latin America, Near East and Asia.
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has recognised Bangladesh’s floating gardens, a unique hydroponics production system constructed with natural grasses and plants, as “Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) “.
The UN body also designated a trio of sites in Japan. These are: the sustainable river fisheries utilizing Sato-kawa system in Gifu, the Minabe-Tanabe Ume approach to growing apricots on nutrient-poor slopes in Wakayama and the Takachihogo-Shiibayama mountainous agriculture and forestry system in Miyazaki which allows agricultural and forestry production in a steep mountainous area.
The sites were officially recognized during a joint meeting of the GIAHS Steering and Scientific Committee at FAO headquarters in Rome on December 15, according to a message received here yesterday.
These new designations bring the number of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) to a total of 36 sites located in 15 countries in Africa, Latin America, Near East and Asia.
