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Tilapia culture in Myanmar, History, Present Status and Future Trends

U Soe TunSustainable Seafood Industry DevelopmentProject,APA ,Surabaya, 27th April, 2016Slide2

Past History in Myanmar

Since World War II, Tilapia became very common food fish because of its hardiness, good growth and short grow out time.Myanmar Dept of Fisheries imported Tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) from Thailand in 1953. O. niloticus

and

O. aureus

was introduced in 1976 by Peoples’ Pearl and Fisheries Corporation from Israel.Slide3

Past History(2)

Farmers produced many fries, fingerlings within 3- 4 months U Tin Maung Than graduated from AIT and introduced Nile Tilapia (O. niloticus) in 1990. He and his group produced mono-sex Tilapia in Dha Pein. However at that time demand was very low.Slide4

Past History(3)

Second attempt production was done again in 2001 with his colleague U Htin Aung Kyaw at Ngwe Zar Pele private company at Ywar Thar Gyi near Yangon. Three more mono-sex hatcheries were operated in Bago, Twantay

and

Pathein

in 2002. Total production of 20 – 40 million fingerlings per month was produced.

After Cyclone

Nargis

in 2008 all hatcheries were shutdown because of damage and low demandSlide5

Past History (4)

Cyclone Nargis destroyed most Tilapia and other fish ponds. Tilapia was spread all over the country.Farmers were not able to restart the farms.At the same time Tilapia and other fishery products were hit by trade embargo and Myanmar was not able to export to USA and EU at that time.Slide6

Current

Nowadays, tilapia spawn without control in many polyculture ponds with rohu, common carp, catla and catfish.Only a few hatcheries produced mono-sex Tilapia.Only a few farmers import Tilapia seed from ThailandSlide7

SWOT Analysis of Culturing Tilapia in Myanmar

STRENGTHSFavorable climatic condition and excellent fertile land available for further advancement of fish seed productionEasy establishment of breeding and training stationsHigh demand of fish seed Skilled and unskilled laborers with low labor costs are locally available Slide8

WEAKNESSPoor extension services including lack of technology transfer to rural areas

Poor knowledge of induced fish breeding techniquesInsufficient staff, lack of record keeping of each species and lack of registration of private hatcheries in DoF officeUnavailability of appropriate modern technologyUnavailability of synthetic hormones in the marketRoad and infrastructure under developed in rural areasLack of electricity in rural areasSWOT Analysis of Culturing TilapiaSlide9

SWOT analysis for culturing Tilapia

OpportunitiesMore demand for fish seed because natural production of fish reduced by agricultural wastes and floodsNumber of grow out ponds may increase to meet increasing fish consumption rate Ever increasing consumption of fish due to increasing populationSlide10

SWOT analysis for culturing Tilapia

THREATPond farming area is gradually reducing due to agriculture expansionMajority of hatcheries never restock new brood fish from different sources. This favors inbreeding The cost of main feed ingredients like rice bran, broken rice and ground nut cake are increasingThe land cost is high in peri-urban areas due to expanding human settlement. Slide11

Present Status

More market demand than previous time due to increased tourism and economic expansionSpecies diversification to more valuable fish instead of fresh water carps (ie: Rohu ,Common and Indian carps ) most farmers like to change species but no assistance for seed supply and technologyMany farmers had difficulty to have access to finance and for them to make their big size pond smaller they need financial assistanceSlide12

Present Status

Only one feed plant is producing floating pelletsAccording to the estimate by the Feed Producers Association of Myanmar, we will need 12 feed plants producing 250 tons of feed per day for fish feed At present the demand for Tilapia is very strong, the farm sale price is $1.10 per kg and the cost of production is around $0.8 per kg. The feed price is

$0.55

per

kg

and farmers

are having difficulty to make a profit although the demand is strong.Slide13

SEED PRODUCTION BY FISH HATCHERIES

UNDER Department of Fisheries in MYANMAR , 2014

Unit - Million

Tilapia

2004-05

2005-06

2006- 07

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

12.020

13.972

13.727

13.400

3.200

20.060

18.363

17.833

13.060

13.510Slide14

Scope for expansion of the Industry

Sustainable Seafood Industry Development Project by University of Arizona and Yangon University, supported by USAID. In its 2nd Year it has programs to link to Regal Springs (a multinational company) with Myanmar counterparts for the production of tilapia in cages in appropriate reservoirs of Myanmar.The seed production of various economically important species is in the program of assistance by EU which should commence in 2016.There are also some companies trying to build Mini RAS system to produce Tilapia, sea bass and some local catfishSlide15

Production and export in 2014 (prov

:)Myanmar had a population of 56 million peopleTotal production of Aquaculture, leasable fisheries, open fisheries and marine fisheries was 5,047,530 TonsTotal production from aquaculture alone was 964,260 TonsRohu production was 68,314 tons (export value = 69. 05 mill US$) and was one of the top 10 producing species

Total fishery export in 2014 was – 345,267 Tons and the value of export in US $ was -

536.2 million.

T

here is a need to incorporate production of Tilapia with good planning and support.Slide16

Future trends

There should be a consistent effort for both the government and the farmers to increase Tilapia productionMyanmar Fisheries Federation is making effort to inform the fish farmers to culture more tilapia There has been effort to bring in GIFT Tilapia from World Fish.Slide17

Foreseeable future

Tilapia will continue to be a player for the increasing global populationChina’s growing middle class will be double in the coming yearsMyanmar’s position between China and India give chances to sell quality products which will benefit both NationsWithout big industries and water pollution Myanmar water bodies still are able to produce more Tilapia.There are many farmers willing to do joint venturesPersonally I would like to invite more investors to check and joins hands with Myanmar farmers in future.So I would like to welcome all investors to MYANMAR Slide18

GIFT - Tilapia from WorldFish

for MyanmarWorld Fish “Base Population” of Tilapia were from wild Nile tilapia from Egypt, Ghana, Kenya and Senegal and four local strains in Philippines (from Israel, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand)In on station trial, GIFT strain was reported to show an average 60% faster growth and 50% survival than local strains WorldFish based in Malaysia took 6th generation (61 families) and initiated joint collaborative genetic selection program with DOF. Malaysia at

Jitra

Station

This year (2016), Myanmar will receive 14

th

generation of improved GIFT from

Jitra

station

World Fish and

DOF Myanmar will be working closely for this project.Slide19

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