Sino Agro Foods Has Big Plans for Recirculating Production of Macrobrachium Prawns in Southern China
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [fishfirst] Translated by Amy Zhong October 18, 2016
The Chinese government and aquaculture industry have attached great importance to recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS). They are thought to represent the trend of sustainable aquaculture. However, this system has deficiencies as high cost in the system building and maintenance as well as difficulties in management. And according to Sino Agro Foods’ research, only 0.04% of global aquatic products have been raised in this kind of system.
However, despite all these difficulties, Sino Agro Foods has decided to build the largest indoor shrimp aquaculture facility in Zhongshan with the 3,700-Mu land it acquired in 2012. It will cost the company 9.3 billion yuan in total to finish its facility building. But its annual output could reach 100-thousand-ton Malaysian prawns (Freshwater Macrobrachium rosenbergii) when the facility is in full operation. Although this is an impressive project, it is rarely known in China. So the reporter has conducted a research to learn about the project’s profitability and sustainable development.
Sino Agro Foods was set up in Nevada during 1974..
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