The days of digging ponds for large-scale fish farming and making a profit only after many hassles are ending. Just as field farming is moving indoors, fish farming has now come inside too: indoor fish farming has begun in Bangladesh.
Eleven tanks in a metal room
The Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) in the capital has built a large room of metal sheets on its own campus, where it farms fish scientifically. In this 2,000 square foot room of thick tin, various fish species grow remarkably fast in 11 tanks. Scientists say production is many times higher than in ponds.
Food and oxygen on demand
BCSIR senior scientific officer Rezaul Karim said the project never lacks feed as needed or healthy oxygen, which is why fish production here is many times that of ponds.
Kamrul Hasan and Harun ur Rashid, two technicians on BCSIR's indoor fish farming project, pointed to another advantage: one or two workers are enough to run a large operation.
Purer fish, surer profit
Scientists say fish produced this way are much purer and so taste better, while investors are almost 100 per cent assured of profit. BCSIR is giving technical support to spread the method.
Source: Shykh Seraj, Hridoye Mati O Manush. First published in Bengali on The Agro News.
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