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Rice-freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) farms in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Type: Journal Article
Aquaculture in riceland has been practiced in Mekong Delta, Vietnam for a long time and integrated rice-freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) farming has become more and more popular. The integrated farming systems ...
Progress towards providing Fijian farmers with a better tilapia strain: evaluation of the GIFT fish in Fiji
Type: Journal Article
The relative growth performance of the GIFT strain Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) was compared under integrated and non-integrated conditions with the best performing ‘indigenous’ Fijian tilapia strain, O. niloticus ...
Fish farming: the smallholder information needs in Kenya
Type: Journal Article
The article outlines the information needs of small scale fish farmers in Kenya.
The impact of integrated aquaculture agriculture on small-scale farm sustainability and farmers’ livelihoods: experience from Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
Intensification of agriculture often requires external inputs, has negative environmental effects and increases risk, especially for small-scale producers. Integrated aquaculture-agriculture (IAA) instead uses on-farm ...
Integrated farming: a new approach in the Basse Casamance, Sénégal
Type: Journal Article
Environmental changes due to 2 decades of drought have modified the ecosystem of the Basse Casamance, Senegal thus forcing farmers to change their practices. They have built fish ponds and diversified into crops such as ...
Intensity and profitability of Clarias nursing systems in periurban Yaoundé, Cameroon
Type: Journal Article
To target development efforts, the technological options for investments in Clarias gariepinus hatchery systems were compared for cost, average weight, number of fingerlings harvested, survival and profitability in periurban ...
Markets, marketing and production issues for aquaculture in East Africa: the case of Uganda
Type: Journal Article
Aquaculture is currently responsible for an insignificant proportion of total fish production in Uganda. However, given the increasing demand for fresh fish in urban and peri-urban araes, and threats to the supply of fish ...
Using the sustainable livelihoods framework to identify constraints and opportunities to the development of freshwater prawn farming in southwest Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
A conceptual framework, drawn from an approach to poverty reduction known as the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA), is applied to understanding the role of freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii, farming in gher ...
Pawpaw seed as fertility control agent on male Nile tilapia
Type: Journal Article
To find out if pawpaw (Carica papaya) seeds can induce sterility in male Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and to determine if sterility so induced is reversible or otherwise, mature male tilapia of mean weight 40 g ...
Farming experiments and transfer of technology of bivalve culture along the southwest coast of India
Type: Journal Article
The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) in India developed bivalve farming technologies in the 1970s, but these were not widely adopted at the time. In 1993, CMFRI undertook an action research program to ...