What is the best agricultural use for marshland? Rice cultivation? Cranberry cultivation?

Question

I thought about dredging a part of it, but it seemed cost prohibitive - based on the return I would be making. Cranberries require a lot of financial investment, not to mention the fact that I don't think that the water is acidic/ground is acidic enough.

Answer 1

It depends on where you are.

Answer 2

WHO CARES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 3

Salt marshland normally is not used for agriculture:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltmarsh

but sometimes dikes are built to reclaim land from the sea and to grow cereals.

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-105...

Freshwater marshland, a usually low-lying area of soft waterlogged ground and standing water, ranks among the most fertile cultivable areas, but the agricultural use differs with climate etc.

Some examples:

Mesopotamian Marshlands, known since thousands of years

http://www.fao.org/sd/giahs/other_iraq.a...

Historical Danish marshland agriculture

http://www.sns.dk/udgivelser/2001/87-727...

Cranberries in Wisconsin, Oregon, Washington e.a.

http://www.jstor.org/pss/141796

The major part of marshland aereas are used to cultivate rice

Rice and corn in Rwanda

http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:ApU...

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-105...

Rice in Uruguay

http://www.american.edu/TED/uruguay.htm

Chinese 'were growing rice 8,000 years ago'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...

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