UW-ECbiology lecturer, students to study Cambodian paddies and the impact chemicals have on animals.
UW- Eau Claire biology lecturer Deb Freund planted rice in a field on a trip to Cambodia. She and five students will spend five weeks in Cambodia this summer to study the difference in animal life in rice paddies, where different farming practices are used. Freund also will help train Cambodian high school teachers.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Rice is the main food that comes from the rice paddies in Cambodia, but not the only one. Fish, crayfish, frogs and crickets all thrive in the flooded paddies, and all are eaten by Cambodians.
From 70 to 80 percent of the protein of rural Cambodians comes from fish and animals caught in the paddies, said Deb Freund, a UW-Eau Claire biology lecturer. Freund will spend five weeks in Cambodia this summer with five students studying the fish and animals in rice paddies and how the increasing use of agricultural chemicals may be affecting them.
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