Background:
Pangasius is highly preferred fish by the consumer across the world because of its good quality fillet and less bone. In spite of its omnivorous feeding habit and efficient ability to utilize artificial feeds sufficient numbers stocking material is not available for its aquaculture. The availability of seed for successful pangas culture greatly depends on the use of proper feeds for seed rearing. Development of feed for each stage stocking material i.e., larvae, fry and fingerlings are very important. An Outreach project was approved by the ICAR during 2008-2012 and Coordinated by ICAR-CIFA in which one of the objectives was the development of feeds for pangas seed rearing.
Technology Details:
ICAR-CIFA, after conducting several feeding trials developed a feed “Pangas Grow-II” under ICAR’s Outreach ‘Fish Feed’ project to meet the nutritional requirement of pangas fingerlings. Pangas Grow-II is a pelleted feed which is fed at 5g body weight of fish till reaches 50 g body weight. Pangas Grow-II is nutritionally balanced and highly palatable to Pangas fingerlings and ensures faster growth with about 80 % survival of fingerlings. Ordinary dry and cool places are suitable to store feed packets.