Thursday, August 11, 2011

USAID helps Sri Lanka eastern farmers to grow sea bass

As part of a larger project farmers in Trincomalee in the Eastern part of Sri Lanka are growing seabass in cages. This project involves at least 1300 people, also as part of the project mussels and oysters will be grown, with help from the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

The project according to the US embassy in Colombo said that 50 percent of the fishers are women who will sell their seabass, mussels and oysters to Aqua N' Green a private company. Some farmers can expect to earn about SL Re50,000 (€320.302) in six months. 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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