India Promotes Crab Growout Using Boxes for Rural Areas
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Deccan Chronicle Holdings] August 9, 2017
To tap the vast export potential mainly to the Singapore and Malaysia markets, crab culture is being taken up in an innovative manner in boxes floating on brackish water tanks in coastal villages in Kakinada and Katrenikona mandals in East Godavari district. Crab hatchlings of Filla ferrata and Ola vafia are being collected locally or are imported from the Central Institute of Brackish Water Aquaculture, Chennai, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture, Visakhapatnam and from hatcheries located at Odisha, to be used for culture in plastic boxes.
Aquaculture farmer make baskets measuring 1-ft by 1-ft by 9 inches with holes to facilitate flow of water. A crab hatchling weighing about 100 gm is placed in each basket. The farmers make a big frame with PVC pipes to place 72 boxes in four rows. These are ...
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