• GEETHA JEBARATHNAM KUTTIBAI

ABSTRACT A number of Asian nations engage in integrated rice-duck farming. Duck faeces and feed waste are two examples of on-farm resources that are not properly utilized and recycled in the system. This suggests that there is need for research to improve the rice-duck system's production. The addition of fish and the nitrogen-fixing aquatic fern azolla has the potential to boost the system's output capacity. For marginal and small farmers the organic, low-cost practice rice-duck cultivation is gaining momentum as farm resources like feed waste and duck excrement are not utilised to their full potential. Despite the fact that India's agricultural land is running out, the country is integrating fish and free-floating nitrogen-fixing fern to meet the country's growing population's demand for food. In addition to azolla integration with rice-duck farming system, azolla and fish integration in rice-duck farming boost the rice output and prove to be a viable solution. It can result in nutrient enhancement, biological control of weeds and pests, methane suppression in anaerobic rice, and a reduction in the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides when fish, azolla, and duck are integrated with rice production. Through this approach, the weeding, nutrient application activities are lessened alleviating the drudgery of women's labor in paddies which will cut out on the tedious task and time. Although it is important to spread the word that ducks and fish won't affect rice, their beneficial effects go far beyond simply generating extra cash. They also help small-scale farmers better their situation with regard to food security.

( Azolla , food security, soil fertility, drudgery, climate resilient. ducks integration)

"A HOLISTIC CLIMATE RESILIENT APPROACH WITH RICE-FISH –DUCK –AZOLLA SYSTEMS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 10, page no.e595-e600, October-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2310387.pdf

"A HOLISTIC CLIMATE RESILIENT APPROACH WITH RICE-FISH –DUCK –AZOLLA SYSTEMS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 10, page no. ppe595-e600, October-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2310387.pdf