Sep 28 2012
Credit: G. Venkata Raju (India) – (gvraju_fisheries@yahoo.co.in) With the support of NFDB and CMFRI, this project was established to demonstrate the techno economic viability of open sea cage farming for taking up of culture of Asian sea bass, lobsters etc. A production of about 4 tons of sea bass and 1 ton of lobsters per cage of …
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Apr 30 2012
Credit: Indian fish farmers and Raju (India) Feed preparation at farm level using different locally available raw materials was a common practice in the olden days. Now a day, farmers prefer to go for using floating pellets in carp farming. Some big feed manufacturing companies supply the formulated feed which may not be have the …
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Mar 19 2012
Credit: Indian fish farmers and G. Venkata Raju (India) Pond construction by manual labour has been stopped. Earth work is undertaken by bulldozers and tractors. Bulldozers are used in the case of large scale excavations whereas tractors are used for the projects requiring the earth work not more than 200 ha generally. However, finishing work will …
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Mar 11 2012
Credit for the clip: Indian farmers and G. Venkata Raju (India) – Description: Abdel Rahman El Gamal This video shows the procedure of counting, loading and transporting of Pangasius fingerlings in India. What could be distilled from the video is the large number of counters (males and females) which will ultimately lead to shorten the …
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Mar 11 2012
Credit: Indian fish farmers and G. Venkata Raju (India) Labeo rohita (Rohu) and Catla catla (Boche) are two popular fishes among the Indian Major Carps in fish farming practices. The production ranges between 15 – 20 ton/ha at the places where the carp farming is going on in commercial way. The farmers use conventional feeds …
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Mar 11 2012
Credit: Indian fish farmers and G. Venkata Raju (India) Andhra Pradesh is one of the states of India which supply large quantities of food fish (carp) in other states of the country and neighbouring countries like Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. For that purpose, the fish harvested has to be transported (by road) to the distant …
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Mar 11 2012
Credit: Indian fish farmers and G. Venkata Raju (India) Catfish (Pangasius) has been introduced a few years back as an alternative species in the brackish water shrimp ponds due to its survival and fast growing nature in the hard pond environmental conditions. Fry level seed has been brought from Bangladesh and successfully …
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Dec 05 2011
Credit : G. Venkata Raju (India) – (gvraju_fisheries@yahoo.co.in) After the repeated failure of Penaeus monodon (giant tiger prawn) culture due to white spot disease, shrimp farmers are now resorted to the culture of whiteleg shrimp, Liptopenaeus vannamei in the brackish water ponds. The picture represents successful operation of Vanamei farming. Note: We decided not to watermark …
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Nov 28 2011
Credit : G. Venkata Raju (India) – (gvraju_fisheries@yahoo.co.in) Circular (Chinese type) cemented tanks are used to conduct artificial breeding of carps. This kind of establishment would facilitate to create artificial environment to trigger the brood stock for early and large scale production of spawn to meet the seed demand of carp fish farming. Note: We decided not …
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Nov 28 2011
Credit : G. Venkata Raju (India) – (gvraju_fisheries@yahoo.co.in) Due to the wind action, the waves created would generally disturb the pond bunds making the pond water in that region more turbid. To arrest recurrent erosion of in shrimp pond, plastic paper lining is laid in some shrimp ponds. Note: We decided not to watermark the photos …
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