From my previous post, some of you may asked why I choose to grow tilapia instead of other high value fish for the fish cage farm. Well, I am not going to grow the mass abundant tilapia found in our local water ways or from the local hatchery. I only grow the best performing tilapia that can grow faster than the local version. It is a Hybrid Tilapia that can grow well over 1 kg in just 10 months.
The market? Well it’s everywhere around Brunei or even the world. As most aquaculturist will be aware of, Sugarbun fast food outlet are craving for it. Other than that, you can easily market it for local consumption at most supermarket. And if you have well over 800 gram Tilapia, you may enter the world market for fish fillet. Just make sure you have the capacity to supply for the hungry world market.
All of the tilapia I will be growing in Pelumpong will be for local market to sustained the imbalance import and demand requirements. The local requirements will be of less than 350 grammer, so the grow-out period will be less than 4 months from initial stocking of 20 gram. I projected, the company will be able to supply not less than 500 kg per month year round. How much will the company earn? Well, I don’t think it will complicated for all of you to calculate. Just shop around in the market and find out the selling price…and you do the maths.
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