Positive Future Tilapia Culture in Kerala

INDIA - Kerala could look forward to a “revolutionary” stride in tilapia culture and could annually generate Rs.700 crore worth of the fish through aquaculture, according to the Marine Products Export Development Authority.


The authority stated that the State had identified 12,000 hectares of water bodies suitable for fish culture and that the State Fisheries Department had decided to issue permission to fish farmers for farming of tilapia, a variety that flourishes in fresh and mildly saline waters, reports The Hindu.


MPEDA claimed that farmers in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, had over the last three years succeeded in tilapia culture adopting the methods developed by World Fish Centre, Malaysia and the help of MPEDA’s Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture.