Taprobane Seafoods opens new Aquaculture Service centre in Puttalam
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Dilan Fernando - Chairman of Taprobane Seafoods (left) in conversation with a farmer
Taprobane Seafoods, Sri Lanka’s largest and most integrated seafood company, opened its second Taprobane Aquaculture Service centre in Puttalam recently to enhance access for shrimp farmers and to promote sustainable farming practices while reducing chemical usage.
The centre, inaugurated by the Chairman of Taprobane Seafoods Dilan Fernando, is a one-stop-shop for all aquaculture products and services to drive a sustainable and eco-friendly shrimp sector through controlled intensification. Shrimp farmers can also avail themselves of equipment on lease or purchase for aquaculture through Taprobane’s partnership with UTE (Caterpillar), the company said in a media release.
By setting up yet another centre, the company connects directly with farmers, reducing middlemen and paying direct to farmers, thus ensuring good prices; working with the government on policies, regulations and infrastructure (for example, electrification, canal dredging and roads); helping older generation farmers move more quickly into utilising new technology; shifting mindsets and onboarding farmers onto new production and platforms; working with the government to change the lingering sentiment that shrimp farming is bad; protecting the environment, and 100 per cent transparency within the sector to ensure human rights are being protected.
Taprobane’s head of Technical services, Vijay Kallepalli held a workshop and communicated to the farmers best practices to ensure they are sustainable and profitable.
The company said at the time of shrimp harvesting, farmers usually release the water with a high percentage of nitrogen to streams or into the lagoon which can increase algae and destroy the environment and change the bio diversity of the water. Thus, Taprobane Seafoods is educating and encouraging farmers to have effluent treatment ponds to minimise nutrient mobilisation by introducing the Recirculation Water System for resource water purification. As a result, the same water can be used for the crop.
Taprobane Seafoods is the largest and most fully integrated seafood company in Sri Lanka. Established in 2010, the company has 17 processing facilities, 1,000 acres of shrimp farms, hatcheries, retail outlets, and a feed and healthcare business and employs over 2,000 direct employees throughout the country.
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