Crop-Aquatic Animals Co-culturing for Improving Food Yields and Ecological Benefits
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 November 2023) | Viewed by 286
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nutrients recycling and its environmental effects
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Co-culturing crops with aquatic animals, including fish, shrimp, crab, etc., is a long-term ecological farming model around the world for over 2000 years. The famous rice-fish agriculture system in Qingtian county, Zhejiang Province, has been recognized as a ‘globally important agricultural heritage system’ by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 2005. The advantages of these co-culture systems are low cost, quick effectiveness, environmentally friendly effects, and better economic returns. However, the sustainable development of co-culture systems faced great challenges, such as the absence of special crops or aquatic animal varieties suitable for co-culture systems, potential eutrophication pollution due to additional feeds applied, increased greenhouse gas emission due to longer flooded times, and so on. Therefore, in this Special Issue, we aim to encourage the submission of high-quality research articles and reviews covering recent advances in new crop/aquatic animal varieties, new co-culture models, biogeochemical cycle, microbial diversity, environmental effect, economic impact, and compensatory policy to improve the food yields and ecological benefits in co-culture systems.
Dr. Fengbo Li
Dr. Liangliang Hu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- crop-aquatic animal co-culture
- yield
- biogeochemical cycle
- environment effects
- food security
- GHG emissions
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