How This Lake In Asia Became A Floating Tomato Farm

Myanmar ’s Inle Lake is one of the largest lakes in the country , but in the last 20 years , satellite images have been revealing what front like a small surface domain . The lake , however , is still there — it ’s just hidden beneath a sprawling , floating tomato farm .

NASA ’s Earth Observatory released this image of the lake belowwhich bear witness just how gravid of an country has been devoted over to a “ floating farm ” that grows mostly tomato , but some other crop as well . So how did it happen ? Although the farm is work up quite far out into the lake , the tomato are n’t literally floating , they ’re being supported by a Brobdingnagian web of water system hyacinth roots that have grown together so tightly that they ’re capable of supporting another plant life on top . Already covering a meaning portion of the lake , the farm is still growing ; it has already increased fivefold in size since 1992 .

Top simulacrum : Thomas Schoch , Satellite image : NASA Earth Observatory .

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