Tag: duckweed

Small-scale production system for duckweed in Vietnam

Credit: Louis Landesman (USA)       The inserted pictures show a small unit for duckweed production which is located near Hanoi, Vietnam. The unit consists of two small wading pools filled with drinking water and one scoop of biodigester slurry. The water in the two pools have been fertilized with lemna duckweed collected from …

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Nutritive value of duckweed and its potential use in fish feed

Photo credit: Khamis killei John (South Sudan) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) This photo was taken in an aquaculture facility in China Introduction: Duckweeds are macrophytes which belong to the Lemnaceae family. They are small green flowering plants which grow as small floating colonies on the surfaces of quiet water bodies. …

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