SCEPTICAL residents of a village in Muara Tiga subdistrict, Pidie, placed some seeds into a couple of steel tanks filled with gravel instead of soil and, to their amazement, seedlings of water spinach and watercress emerged in just two weeks.

The village is participating in a pilot project of the International Organization of Migrations (IOM) livelihood support unit to introduce the advantages of an aquaponics system, a technique for food product