This document discusses the benefits of integrated fish and poultry farming. The system creates a mutually beneficial relationship where poultry provide fertilizer for fish ponds through their manure, and the fish consume food waste from the poultry, reducing costs. This integrated approach increases productivity and profit per unit area by optimizing resource use. While fish growth may not be maximized, targeted feeding can address this issue. The document recommends polyculture of different fish species for better utilization of pond resources compared to monoculture.

1. INTEGRATED FISH AND
POULTRY FARMING

2. It also involved the use of crops, grass and manure as
feed and fertilizer, all in a complex, mutually beneficial
system.
Asia dating back to more than 1500 years in India and
more than 2400 years in China.
Introduction

3. The idea behind integrated fish farming is to
create a mutually beneficial system which
will lead to maximization of productivity
through optimum resource use.
Ecofriendly
Providing cheap feedstuffs and organic manure
for pond fertilization and thus reduction of cost
of inorganic fertilizers and commercial feed;
30-40% increase in profit.
Goals

4. INTEGRATED FISH AND POULTRY FARMING

5. Advantages of integrated
chicken-fish farming
maximization of resources
Increase in productivity per unit
area.
Disadvantage of
integrated chicken-fish
farming
Fish growth is not maximized.
Management
By applying feed manually growth
can be maximized.

6. Fish polyculture Vs
Monoculture
• Fish polyculture is
preferred over
monoculture because in
polyculture, varieties of
fish with different food
preferences can exploit
different fish food
resources.
• Monoculture results in
ineffective utilization of
several levels of the
ponds natural food
chain and is more
suitable for intensive
fish culture

7. • 500-600 layers is enough to
fertilize a 1 ha fish pond which
contains at least 10,000 fish and at
a daily manure load of about 100
kg/ha/day
Layer density