Taprobane Seafoods opens new Aquaculture Service center in Puttalam
SRI LANKA
Friday, September 23, 2022, 07:00 (GMT + 9)
Taprobane Seafoods, Sri Lanka’s largest and most integrated seafood company opened its second Taprobane Aquaculture Service center in Puttalam recently to enhance access for shrimp farmers and to promote sustainable farming practices while reducing chemical usage.
The center was inaugurated by the Chairman of Taprobane Seafoods Dilan Fernando in the presence of representatives from local government and customers.
The new Taprobane Aqua Services center is a one-stop-shop for all aquaculture products and services to drive a sustainable and eco-friendly shrimp sector through controlled intensification. Shrimp farmers can also avail themselves of equipment on lease or purchase for aquaculture through Taprobane’s partnership with UTE (Caterpillar).
By setting up yet another center, the company connects directly with farmers, reducing middlemen and paying direct to farmers, thus ensuring good prices; working with the government on policies, regulations and infrastructure (for example, electrification, canal dredging and roads); helping older generation farmers move more quickly into utilizing new technology; shifting mindsets and onboarding farmers on to new production and platforms; working with the government to change the lingering sentiment that shrimp farming is bad; protecting our environment, and 100% transparency within our sector to ensure human rights are being protected.
Photo courtesy from Taprobane Seafoods
Taprobane’s head of Technical services, Vijay Kallepalli held a workshop and communicated to the farmers best practices to ensure they are sustainable and profitable. Vijay is a 30-year veteran of the Aquaculture industry, has international experience, and is globally regarded as an expert in Sustainable Shrimp farming.
The center’s slogan is ‘No Antibiotics No Pesticide, all feed and fertilizer will not be harmful to the environment for best sustainability practices’. At the time of shrimp harvesting, farmers usually release the water with a high percentage of nitrogen to streams or into the lagoon which can increase algae and destroy the environment and change the bio diversity of the water. Thus, Taprobane Seafoods is educating and encouraging farmers to have Effluent Treatment Ponds to minimize nutrient mobilization by introducing the Recirculation Water System for resource water purification. As a result, the same water can be used for the crop.
Photo courtesy from Taprobane Seafoods
The center will also target electricity consumption by educating farmers on the usage of 10 gauge blowers instead of the usage of parallel wheel aerators, thus reducing electricity usage. Enhancing their sustainability agenda further, Taprobane Aquaculture Services is now online and cloud based, thus going totally paperless. In its sustainability drive, the company is working towards eradicating plastic usage with the promotion of cloth bags, and reducing (leading to eradicating) the usage of plastic cups or plates. All refuse including paper, plastic and food waste is recycled.
Taprobane Seafoods is the largest and most fully integrated seafood company in Sri Lanka. Established in 2010, the company has 17 processing facilities, 1,000 acres of Shrimp farms, hatcheries, retail outlets, and a feed & healthcare business and employs over 2,000 direct employees throughout the country.
Clipfish challenges in Brazil: Port bureaucracy stops millions worth Brazil
More and more clipfish containers are being stopped in Brazilian ports.
- Complicated regulations make market access challenging, to say the least, say Norwegian exporters who risk large losses.
Bra...
Catches in the Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea Russia Fed.
Situational update as of 03/24/2024
Source: Stockfile FIS
Sea of Okhotsk (pollock)
According to OSM data in the Sea of Okhotsk, pollock catch (industrial and coastal fisheries) as of March 24, 20...
Productive Development of the Fishing Activity Peru
Fishing Sector Bulletin - January 2024
The landing of hydrobiological resources registered a negative interannual variation of 62.7%, as a result of the lower landing of fishing resources for indirec...
NGO Sues UK Government Over International Fishing Quotas United Kingdom
Blue Marine Foundation, a charity dedicated to restoring the ocean to health, has launched legal proceedings over the government’s decision to set fishing opportunities, for more than half UK st...
Copyright 1995 - 2024 Seafood Media Group Ltd.| All Rights Reserved. DISCLAIMER