Ornamental Fish Culture

Introduction

Ornamental fish breeding and rearing is an attractive new opportunity available to fish farmers and traders all over the world. The potentials are enormous considering the large number of species involved and the ever-growing international export and domestic markets. The real opportunity lies in its value addition through selective breeding and genetic manipulations resulting in development of new attractive colour strains and ornamental characters. The trade with a turnover of US$ 5 Billons and annual growth rate of 6% offers a lot of scope for development. The top exporting country is Singapore followed by Hongkong, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Srilanka, Taiwan, Indonesia and India. The largest importer of Ornamental fish is the USA followed by Europe and Japan, the emerging markets are China and South Africa.

Techno Economics:

Project cost-Rs. 0.70 lakhs

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