Tamara Walkingstick, a class member and extension forester, said the Vietnamese raise three crops of rice annually. They inter-crop rice with fish and shrimp. We have a lot to learn from them. No space is wasted. Between fields was a small berm, and maybe they planted eucalyptus trees for fuel and tool handles.
Nothing is wasted.
The last night we had a big farewell dinner and the next morning at the airport several of the Vietnamese who had been with us the whole trip cried. My personal philosophy is that the way you create world peace is one person at a time. We created a little peace between the Vietnamese and Arkansans. Walkingstick said the trip would not have been possible without the extensive contacts of Don Voth, an extension economist at Fayetteville, who went along on the trip. Don has been in and out of Vietnam for years.