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ചെമ്മീന്‍ കൃഷി (Prawn farming)

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Title ചെമ്മീന്‍ കൃഷി (Prawn farming)
 
Creator Unnithan, K Asokakumaran
 
Subject Farming/Culture
Prawn and Prawn fisheries
 
Description The traditional practice of prawn filtration prevalent in
the low-lying brackishwater impoundments including the
'pokkali' fields adjoining the Vembanad Lake in Kerala has
spread to other areas along the northern and southern regions of the State in recent years. Filtration is the method of trapping and holding the juveniles of prawns ascending along with the high tide in brackishwater impoundments and harvesting thern at periodical intervals. As per the 1991 statistics this traditional practice is prevalent in about 12,500 ha spread over the coastal areas of Kannur, Thriasur, Ernakulam, Alleppey, Kottayam and Kollam districts of Kerala state.
 
Publisher സി.എം.എഫ്.ആര്‍.ഐ (CMFRI)
 
Contributor Menon, N G
Sasikumar, V
 
Date 1998
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/4810/1/18._unni.pdf
Unnithan, K Asokakumaran (1998) ചെമ്മീന്‍ കൃഷി (Prawn farming). In: കടലേകും കനിവുകള്‍ ( Kadalekum Kanivukal – Malayalam version ). സി.എം.എഫ്.ആര്‍.ഐ (CMFRI), Cochin, pp. 82-86.