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Filtering by: Creator Leinen, M. Conference Name International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade Decade 2000-2009

Partial substitution of balanced feed by Chaya leaves in Nile tilapia production: a bioeconomic analysis

Creator:

Lopez, Gaspar Roman Poot and Leyva, Eucario Gasca

Abstract:

Tilapia culture in Yucatan State, Mexico, is largely semi-intensive. The producers are mostly poor farmers who receive government subsidies for purchase of fingerlings and balanced feed. Feeding practices are often inadequate (satiety rations), moreover, producers frequently suffer financial and resource shortfalls. During feed shortages producers are known to use empirical...

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Research Paper

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. Ranhotra, G. S., J. A. Gelroth, S. D. Leinen, M. A. Vin˜as, and K. J. Lorenz, 1998, Nutritional Profile of