Duck
In rice duck farming ducks are raised on rice paddies, and eat pests and weeds. This means the farmer doesn't have to use earth and water-ravaging pesticides and herbicides. The ducks also churn up the water with their feet helping to get more oxygen to the rice plants roots, thus helping the plants to grow stronger and taller. The duck's droppings are also an excellent, natural fertilizer for the rice plants. Rice duck farming is already an Asia-wide success story
Fish
For over 1,200 years in Southern China farmers have been employing rice fish farming, which sees fish being raised in rice paddies. Recent scientific research from Zhejiang University has shown that the rice fish system requires 68% less pesticide use and 24% less chemical fertilizer use than the monoculture rice system. This method has been designated a "globally important agriculture heritage system" by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Inter-cropping
The Yunnan inter-cropping rice model has shown a reduction in crop disease through the practice of the practice of growing two or more crops in proximity. This technique is effective at reducing loss from rice blast disease, a particularly destructive fungus that causes damage on panicles and leaves, killing them before rice grains form. This system has proven so popular among farmers that by 2004 it had been adopted on more than 2,000,000 hectares of farmland across China
Light trap
A light trap is a device used at night in the rice field to collect and control insects such as leafhoppers, planthoppers and stem borers. This practice has proven effective for over 40% of rice planthoppers and over 30% of rice leaf folder