Section 1: Lectures
Module 1. Introduction
- Current world aquaculture and future
- Introduction aquaculture in Vietnam
- Roles of aquaculture in the rural and sustainable development
Module 2. Review the biological aspects of species sustainable for poly-culture and integrated aquaculture
(covering freshwater and brackish water)
Module 3. Limnology and ecology of fish ponds
- Limnology
- Ecology
- Interaction and application in fish ponds
Module 4. Water quality and disease prevention
- Water quality management
- Fish disease prevention and treatment
- Waste and other material treatment before fertilizing the fish pond
- fertilization: principles and implementation
- pre-processed material used as feed in the pond
- waste management during culture period
Module 5. Nutrition aspects
- Ingredients classification and quality (local materials)
- Low cost feed formulation
- Simple processing methods
- Feed and feeding frequency
Module 6. Seed selection
- Principles of combination of different species for poly-culture farming
- Principles of species selection for integrated aquaculture farming
- Seed quality and testing methodology
Module 7. Poly-culture techniques
- Site selection and preparation
- Seed stocking
- Feed and feeding management (including fertilizer and others)
- Water quality management
- Disease prevention and treatment
- Introduction of methods to produce safe products in polyculture systems
Module 8. Integrated fish-farming techniques
- Planning for production cycle and requirement preparation
- Seed stocking and management
- Feed and feeding
- Environmental and disease management
- Introduction of methods to produce quality insurance and veterinary products in integrated aquaculture farming.
Module 9. Harvest and marketing
- Harvest techniques
- Products preservation
- Consumption and increasing added values of products
Section 2: Field trip and study tour
- Small-scale fish farms and reservoir cage-culture sites in the mountainous province of Thai Nguyen.
- VAC (garden—pond—husbandry) site in Hai Duong.
- Integrated shrimp-clam farms in Hai Phong.
- Small-scale aquaculture cooperative model at Tu Ky, Hai Duong
- Sight-seeing/shopping visit to Hanoi capital, Do Son beach, Nui Coc reservoir, etc.
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