Teaching aquaculture skills to B40

At UPM’s fish breeding facility, Fadhil and his colleagues train programme participants to use smart technology to farm red tilapia that can number up to 1,000 fish per cage. — Photos: Bernama

WITH constant demand for the fast-growing red tilapia, the species has been chosen for a farming project by the People’s Income Initiative-Agro Entrepreneur (IPR-Intan) programme at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM).

UPM Agriculture Faculty senior lecturer Dr Fadhil Syukri said that the first group of five IPR-Intan participants have been nurturing the fish in cages since December last year.