Kotabaru, South Kalimantan (AntaranewsKalsel) - The Kotabaru Navy Base distributing 26,000 fingerlings to fishermen in coastal sigam, Kotabaru.


Marine Lt. Col. (P) Bagus Handoko in Kotabaru Sunday said that 26,000 fish seedlings, consisting of 15,000 seedlings of milkfish and 11,000 tilapia seedlings.

One of purposes of distributing fingerlings is the coastal communities can increase their income in by utilizing unused farm land.

Naval together with Kotabaru Marine and Fisheries Agency to optimize idle land in the coastal embankment to be productive.

Optimizing the idle land into productive farm land by the cultivation of milkfish is expected to help boost the economy of coastal communities as well as nutrition.

Looking ahead, he added, people are expected to increasingly aware that the coastal land that is considered unproductive can be used to boost the economy with creativity, one of them by fish farming.

Meanwhile, in early 2015 Head of the South Kalimantan Environment Agency Rahmadi Kurdi in Banjarmasin said, hundreds of hectares of shrimp other fish ponds abandoned after some fishery importers companies from various countries stop sending orders.

Pewarta: Imam Hanafi

Editor : Imam Hanafi


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