Integrated Fish Farming
Dr. Nityanand Pandey & Dr. D. S. Malik
Preface
Fish may be cheapest animal product, if waste replace the need of expensive supplementary fish feed. The potential to recycling organic waste into fish ponds has been demonstrated by the leading country of aquaculture production in the world, China where animal excreta is the main fertilizer in the fish culture. Integrated fish farming is generally considered particularly relevant to benefit the rural fisherman community. The integration of fish farming with livestock and crop farming offers greater efficiency in resource utilization reduces risk by diversifying crops and provided additional income and employment opportunities to the fishermen family. In Asia, fish farming has been a part time activity of farmers, who developed it as an efficient means of utilizing farm resources to the maximum capacity. The highest productions obtained so far in integrated fish farming are with pigs, ducks and chicken, a very widespread technique in Asia. But, integrated livestock fish farming systems is more complex with a need for more skill and knowledge and better management. Integrated farming is a multicommodity farming system and failure of one system could adversely affect the other. Hence, there is a need to optimize the integrated livestock fish farming to get maximum production of animal protein per unit area at low cost with efficient management practices.
This book is a result of on field experimentation on Azolla-pig-fish farming and I hope that this book would be useful to the concerned and help in further improvement in management practices of integrated pig-fish farming.
Contents
- Historical Review
- Physio-Geographical Features and Design of Experimental Units
- Materials and Methods
- Observation
- Discussion
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