A manual for tilapia business management / Ram C. Bhujel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bhujel, Ram C., author.

Contributor:

C.A.B. International.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tilapia.

Fish hatcheries.

Fish culture.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Boston, MA : CABI, [2014]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The ultimate goal is to achieve food security, create employment and generate income. This book is an attempt to help develop the tilapia industry while keeping those goals in mind. This manual is written to cover all aspects of tilapia farming as a business. Starting from the importance of tilapia culture, it covers detailed methods of a proven hatchery technology that has ensured production and supply of millions of high quality monosex tilapia fry, accelerating the growth of the tilapia industry globally. In addition, it describes how to successfully grow tilapia in ponds and cages, and in polyculture and integrated farming systems. The manual also covers some biosecurity and fish health management aspects and also postharvest handling, food safety, quality control and marketing. This manual will be useful to farmers, farm managers, extension workers, policy makers, researchers, educators, consultants and students (undergraduate and postgraduate).

Contents:

Introduction

Tilapia Hatchery

Fry nursing

Grow-out in ponds

Grow-out in cages

Polyculture

Integrated farming

Fish health management and biosecurity

Post-harvest handling : marketing and processing

Business models and plan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781780641379

1780641370

OCLC:

890340132

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.