Rice-fish-vegetable integrated farming: towards a sustainable ecosystem

An outline is given of procedures to take in order to adopt an integrated rice-fish-vegetable farming system in India. Vegetables, which are cultivated in the dikes of the system, may include Luffa acutangula, Vigna unguiculata and Phaseolus vulgaris . When the water depth of the field rises to 30-40 cm, fish fingerlings (Puntius javanicus, Cyprinus carpio and Labeo rohita ) and prawn juveniles (Macrobranchium rosenbergii ) may be stocked. The advantages of such a system are listed and include year round employment opportunities for the farm family and improved farm family income and nutrition.

Pyramidellidae de Pho-Hai (sud Viêt-Nam)

After having pointed out their distribution into several subfamilies, genera, and sub-genera of Pyramidellidae, this note describes 44 species of this family. Forty-two were collected by the author in the beach sands at Pho-Hai, near Phan-Thiet (South-Vietnam) and two were dredged off Phan-Thiet by the Nha-Trang Oceanographic Institute. Among these species twenty-one are new: Cossmannica champaensis, Odostomia (Odostomia) chamorum, O. (Megastomia) elata, O. (Megastomia) binhdinhensis, 0. (Megastomia) gestroides, O. (Jodanula) megembryon, Pyrgulina (Standeniella) difficilis, P. (Parthenina) monicae, P. (Pyrgulina) phohaiensis, Chrysallida phanthietina, Egilina gigantea, E. babellina, E. (Numaegilina) ventricosa, Babella cylindrica, B. crassicostata, Miralda franciscae, Turbonilla barthelemyi, T. (Asmunda) secta, Pyrgiscus infantilis, Careliopsis sublaevis, Cingulina inaequalis.