By Amitava Chandra.
Location: Adjacent to dal-lake, Kashmere, India
The vast marshland adjacent to Dal-lake in Kashmere, India is globally renowned to tourists for its unique scenic beauty and serene landscape. But to the residents of the locality, this typically sporadic, water-locked region is a boon of its unique ecosystems & is full of several species of plankton and zooplankton which gives a fertility boost to the area. The residents, along with fishing, used to sustainably grow various kinds of vegetables on these lands.
