Fish breeding centre to breed cat fish locally

Rambodagalla Ornamental Fish Breeding and Training Centre will breed cat fish (Pangasius Suchi) locally to save large sum of money spends annually to import them.

They have taken measures to introduce the cat fish breeding technology for those who engage in ornamental fish industry.

The Ornamental Fish Breeding and Training Centre has also taken measures to increase aquatic plants production and exports by using tissue culture method. Earlier aquaculture farmers used to export aquatic plants which are collected from water reservoirs.

The farmers can easily produce large number of endemic, rare plants and plants with high demand in the global market by using tissue culture method, Rambodagalla Ornamental Fish Breeding and Training Centre Aquaculture Scientist Manori Bambarenda said.

A two-day training program will be conducted by the Centre on September 24 and 25 at the Rambodagalla Ornamental Fish Breeding and Training Centre to provide technical guidance to produce aquatic plants using tissue culture for those who engage in ornamental fish industry and for those who willing to enter this field.

For further information:

Contact Rambodagalla Ornamental Fish Breeding and Training Centre (037-2252048) and Ornamental Fish Exchange and Information Centre (011277032).

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