<![CDATA[This community service was carried out to support the fish farmers in solving their problems. The problems identified during the initial survey were: high feed cost, low survival rate of cultured fish and shrimp, disease outbreaks and lack of production and financial management. Workshop, training and applying a simple technology was introduced to the selected farmers. Some activities conducted were: (1) providing two hand refractometers and a pelleting machine, (2) workshop of local-ingredient based fish feed production, (3) workshop of probiotics production, (4) training of production and financial management, (5) demo-pond. Farmers have been able to produce local-ingredient based fish feed and probiotics as well as to apply a simple production and financial management. The demo pond results showed that introducing of hand refractometer for adaptation period could increase the survival rate of fish and shrimp up to 25%. Furthermore, by applying local-ingredient based fish feed and probiotics during the culture periods, the fish famers could increase the income from fish production up to 50.1%. ]]>
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