VPP 322: Aquatic Animal Diseases, Health Care and Management (1+1)

INTEGERATED AQUACULTURE

• In integrated aquaculture, fish culture is combined with farming of agricultural crops or livestock such as poultry, duck, cattle and pig. Integration with agricultural crops provides space for fish culture  where as livestock wastes are used directly as food for fish or act as fertilizer for fish pond to generate plankton production. Integerated aquaculture helps in effective utilization of the available farm space, improves productivity of the agricultural farm, provides additional income, helps in recycling the animal wastes which would otherwise pollute the environment and increases the supply of fish and the animal products.

Types of integrated aquaculture

• Agriculture –fish culture integration
  • Rice-fish culture
  • Fish-floriculture
  • Fish-vegetable farming
• Livestock-fish culture
  • Duck-fish farming 
  • Poultry-fish farming 
  • Cattle-fish farming 
  • Pig-fish farming