[Via... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: Downwithcapitalism <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 4:56 PM Subject: [downwithcapitalism] Eco-villages in Vietnam Vietnam News Agency. 2 June 2001. ECological villages built to improve environment and living conditions. HA NOI Six ecological villages have been built in areas with unstable ecological systems in Viet Nam in an effort to improve environmental and living conditions for local people. The country has five kinds of unstable ecological systems: bare hills, sand dunes, salt-water marshes, fresh-water marshes and plateaus. Two such villages were built in the bare-hill area of Ba Vi district, northern Ha Tay province. After five years, the Ba Vi ecological village, where Dao ethnic people were encouraged to settle down and use new techniques in cultivation, has become an economic development model for neighbouring localities. Meanwhile, the Ba Trai ecological village of Muong ethnic people, set up year later, was praised by experts as it yielded high economic efficiency and helped improve the local ecological system. Muong people there grew fruit trees in combination with a suitable acreage for tea growing in an attempt to protect the land's fertility. Two other ecological villages, Trieu Van in Trieu Phong district, central Quang Tri province, and Hai Thuy in Le Thuy district, neighbouring Quang Binh province, are typical for sand dune areas characterised by white sand and severe climate. The villagers have planted perennial trees such as casuarina and acacia to prevent sand build-up. They have also dug canals and ponds for irrigation, making what was once sandy land arable again. The Phu Dien village in northern Hai Duong province is an example for the fresh-water marsh ecological system. From an area suitable for only one spring-winter crop a year due to droughts in summer and floodings in autumn, farmers have applied the "field-pond-garden" model which uses a quarter of the land for ponds, another quarter for gardens, and half for rice fields, thus ensuring food security for long-term development. The last ecological village was built in Tinh Gia district of central Thanh Hoa province. Set up in 1997, this salt-water flooded area now is covered with mangrove trees and is expected to be a potential land for economic development and biological diversification. * * * * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
