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Smallholder farmers in Malawi adopt and improve technologies from collaborative research

Abstract
- Details are given of the various new technologies demonstrated by ICLARM and the Fisheries Department in Malawito smallholder farmers, which include the following: 1) Use of Pennisetum purpureum as an alternative/supplement to maize bran as fish feed; (2) Creation of high quality compost from poor quality plant wastes as fish food or fertilizer; 3) Vegetable-pond integration using pond sediments and water for adjacent vegetable beds; 4) Integration of chicken and fish enterprises; 5) Pond stirring with a bamboo rake for lifting nutrients from the pond bottom into the water column; 6) Use of a reed fence for harvesting fish; and, 7) A smoking kiln for fish.
- External link to download this item: http://www.worldfishcenter.org/Naga/aq_3518.pdf
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- Sustainable aquaculture [2460]
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Date
- 1990
Author
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Noble, R.P.
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Kadongola, W.K.
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Type
- Journal Article
Publisher
- ICLARM