Friday, March 18, 2011

Helping local fish farms improve productivity

Singapore - Local production plays an important supporting role in ensuring food supply resilience, to complement our key strategy of source diversification, writes the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore.

It is important for to raise the productivity and capability of our farms to maximise the limited land and sea space that is used for local farming. The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) is stepping up efforts to help local fish farms increase productivity to meet Singapore’s target of 15 percent of fish consumed locally.

Assisting Local Coastal Fish Farms to Up Production

There are currently 111 fish farms in Singapore. Of these, 95 are coastal farms and the other 16 comprise of deep sea farms, hatcheries, industrial-scale farms and oyster/shellfish farms. These farms produce about four percent of our total fish consumption in total. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers.


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