Rantau, S Kalimantan (ANTARA) - Tapin Police, South Kalimantan Regional Police, is developing snakehead fish and tilapia fish farming to support food security and provides it as education tool for children.
Tapin Police Chief AKBP Weldi Rozika here on Thursday said the fish farming program utilizes a vacant land within the police office to build ponds and bioflocs.
“We have released 500 snakehead fingerlings into three bioflocs and 300 tilapia fry into a special pond at Tapin Police Kindergarten,” he said in Rantau, Tapin capital, Friday.
The program, he said, is not only to support internal food security, but also introduce concept of fish farming and aquatic ecosystem preservation to children through educational ponds in kindergarten.
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Snakehead fish (locally known as haruan) was selected for the reason of its high albumin content, which is beneficial for health, particularly in accelerating would healing and boosting imunity.
“We integrate food security and health aspects into one program,” he said.
He informed that all police stations in Tapin jurisdiction have been asked to implement the same program, adapting to their land conditions.
"If police stations don't have a large area, they can use biofloc system as an alternative," he said.
Weldi explained that the harvest from fish farming will be managed by Tapin Police's internal cooperative to be then distributed to personnel as a form of economic support and welfare.
“Through this fish farming, we want to foster the spirit of food self-sufficiency, as well as raising awareness of the environment and health,” he said.
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