Swiss Agency Aims to Promote Organic Shrimp Farming in Kerala State
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by Jagdish Kumar - April 11, 2016
With growing emphasis on organic sea foods across the globe, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean sciences (Kufos) has joined hands with a Switzerland based organisation, to study the prospects of organic shrimp cultivation.
KUFOS will take the help of Coop Cooperative, an international agency for promotion of organic farming worldwide on how they can do organic shrimp farming while utilising vast mangroves resource in the backwaters of the state.
The state wants to exploit its natural resource to provide additional income to shrimp farmers in the state, without using intensive modern shrimp farming.
Gerhard Zurlutter, a representative of the organisation held a discussion with the senior authorities..
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