Floating gardens enable crops to be grown during floods and in areas where land is limited or unstable and liable to change, such as the char lands in Bangladesh. The link below is to a technical brief produced by Practical Answers, the technical advice service of Practical Action, which explains how to construct a floating garden and their uses.
Kaduvetti's wing-wall river bund
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