Prawns

Prawns

Prawns (Macrobranchium rosenbergii), including one of the leading commodity fisheries freshwater cultivation of high economic value, but has not developed to its optimum. Currently, besides local prawns are usually cultivated farmers, high yielding varieties also known as prawns gimacro (genetic improvement of macrobranchium rosenbergii) with a faster growth rate and form karapasnya smaller than the size of local prawns karapas that contain meat more.

At the age of five months, the body length of male prawns gimacro reach 38 cm in body weight reached 480 grams per fish. Meanwhile, in the same period, the length of the body of local prawns reaching only 25-28 cm in body weight of only 200 grams per fish. In fact, the maximum size of local prawns ever found in the wild only 300 grams per tail. That's why gimacro prawns prawns known as super because pertumbuhanya very quickly.

prawns added value options when maintenance is relatively brief, lasting from 3 to 5 months. Production level is high, to reach 2 - 5 tons per hectare per crop cycle, from solid tergamtng tebar and technology used. Another advantage prawns survival reaches 80-85% or the death rate not more than 20%
source: Khairul Amri, S. Pi, M. Si and Khairuman, SP, AgroMedia Pustaka, 2008

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