About
50 researchers, technicians and farmers
working in Cuba will be involved in the breeding and fattening of tilapia in
Cuba, NaijaAgroNet reports.
The director, Base Business Unit
(UEB ), Zenaida Arboleya, said this is a programme that seeks to achieve more
efficient fish by breeding, which has a component of training and consulting
services.
The United
Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is about launch a freshwater
fish breeding programme in Cuba.
NaijaAgroNet learnt that the
programme will include training and introduction to fish breeding, according
to Carlos PulgarÃn, an FAO officer in Panama, serving the Caribbean and Central
America.
He further said that the project is
expected to begin this year in the Base Business Unit (UEB, in Spanish) El
Dique, a part of the Company for the Development of Aquaculture Techniques,
located in Loma de Tierra, in the municipality of Cotorro, Havana.
Cyriacus Nnaji
with additional report from The
Fish Site/GEE
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