Israeli Technology to Revolutionise India's Prawn Farmin

INDIA - A fresh-water prawn farming project, which is based on a new bio-technology method developed in Israel and has the potential to triple the production of this variety in India, has started running commercially in Kerala with the support of Marine Products Export Development Authority (Mpeda).


Developed by Professor Amir Sagi of Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, the new method allows farmers to grow all-male prawn population, which will grow three times larger than the female ones over a six-month period, without genetic modification or using chemicals or hormones, reports TimesOfIndia.