A manual for tilapia business management /

• Main Author: Bhujel, Ram C., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2014.
• Subjects: Tilapia.; Fish hatcheries.; Fish culture.; Aquacultural and Fisheries Economics, (New March 2000); Pesticides and Drugs; Control, (New March 2000); Other Control Measures.; Animal Genetics and Breeding, (New March 2000); Animal Reproduction and Embryology, (New March 2000); Animal Physiology and Biochemistry (Excluding Nutrition); Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Animals, (New March 2000); Protozoan, Helminth, Mollusc and Arthropod Parasites of Animals, (New March 2000); Aquaculture (Animals); Aquatic Produce.; Food Processing (General); Food Storage and Preservation.; Food Composition and Quality.; Food Service, (New June 2002); Animal health.; Aquaculture.; Aquaculture techniques.; Aquatic animals.; Aquatic organisms.; Cages.; Employment.; Exports.; Farming systems.; Fish.; Fish diseases.; Fish production.; Food quality.; Food safety.; Food security.; Growth rate.; Hatcheries.; Income.; Marketing.; Polyculture.; Pond culture.; Postharvest treatment.; Quality controls.
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 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).