Growing major cockle business

Zainoddin showing one blood cockle grown by the Teluk Lekir model in Perak.

MALAYSIA will be able to produce some 150,000 metric tonnes of blood cockles (Tegillarca granosa) worth more than RM1bil by 2025, according to Batu Maung Fisheries Research Institute (FRI) in Penang.

Its research senior director Dr Zainoddin Jamari said the plan was feasible following the success of a farming model in Teluk Lekir, Perak, which could produce cockles all year round.