Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture (IMTA) – A successful diversified farming system

Joseph, Shoji and Ignatius, Boby and Imelda, Joseph and Rajesh, N (2023) Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture (IMTA) – A successful diversified farming system. In: Winter School on Mariculture Technologies for Income Multiplication, Employment, Livelihood and Empowerment. ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, pp. 53-61.

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Abstract

Aquaculture is one among the industries growing at the fastest rate in the world with an average rate of 5.8% in the last 15 years (Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO], 2018); due to the increased high demand of products and a way to a good steady income generation in the minimum time. Aquaculture is an old practice thought to have begun over two thousand years ago in China (Rabanal, 1988). However, it has only been in the last four to five decades that commercial production became widespread, moving from an annual output of 4.7 million tons in 1980 to 80 million tons in 2016 (Bacher, 2015). Aquaculture is currently the food production sector owing to an increasing food demand, combined with fish stock depletion, it is now recognized that fisheries will not be able to meet the projected global needs in high-quality protein. This sector is expected to supply 109 million tons of fish by 2030, with a growth of 37% in 2016 (Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO], 2018).

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