Flower and vegetable gardens are created by joining beds of water hyacinth, flotsam, mud and weeds dredged from the lake bed and which breaks down into rich humus; it take fifty years to produce a layer one meter thick. Land is also reclaimed in this way, land used for floating gardens and sites for villages. The floating gardens are anchored to the bottom of the shallow lake with bamboo poles forming rich, fertile plots for cultivating a wide variety of crops, including:

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