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Farmer Makes Money from Pangasius

For rice farmer and fishpond operator Cesario Manuel of Bayombong, Nueva Ecija, Pangasius raising is so.far the most profitable agribusiness he has been into.

He realized this when he recently harvested 1,076 kilos of Pangasius from his three fishponds with an aggregate area of 406 square meters. His stock reached an average weight of 950 grams at harvest. In fact, some of it even weighed 1.5 kilograms (kg).

With this bountiful harvest, Cesario is thankful to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and Nueva Vizcaya Office of the Provincial Agriculturist for having awarded him this project, which is a technology verification on the optimal stocking density of Pangasius. This project, says Provincial Agriculturist Felipe Panganiban during the recent Harvest Field Day, is one way to attain higher fish sufficiency level for Nueva Ecija, which is a landlocked province.

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Pangasius : Agriculture’s New Rising Star

Called mekong kanduli and kanduhito in Filipino, the rising demand in the international market for this family of catfish has started to create ripples in the local agricultural world.

It started rather innocently. Early this year, top managers of Vitarich Corporation went to Vietnam and came across thisfreshwater fish called by many names: Siamese shark, sutchi catfish, swai, white or striped catfish. Scientifically called Pangasius hypopthalamus, these slender, elongated silverish to bluish-bodied fishes that can grow at 4ft in length and can weigh up to a maximum of 44 kg have been making waves in Vietnam because they are processed into fillets and are exported to Russia, Poland, Spain, USA, Netherlands, China, etc.

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