MANAGEMENT OF TABLE SIZES
Quite a lot of farmers prefer to stock fingerlings or juveniles and then raise them to table sizes because it’s fairly simpler to do and there is ready market for table-size fishes. However in spite of its’ simplicity, first timers in the business still burn their fingers.....because they do not know the basic principles to follow. These basic principles are again enumerated in this chapter together with why first-timer famers make losses in catfish farming.
The high cost of feeding the fishes and how to “assuage the headache” is also discussed. The formula (i.e. composition) of a good local feed, where to get the materials and the unique method of dispensing local feeds (contrary to how foreign feeds are served) are all discussed in this chapter. What to do to ensure a successful switch from foreign to local feed is also discussed.
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