Auto-Feeders in Vannamei Culture

1.1.Introduction

Sea foods like shrimp are given importance by several people around the world and its farming has emerged to have noteworthy and considerable for foreign trade (Mathiesen, 2009). Many countries in the world contend to ensure their market determined, commercialize product globally and determined with quality guarantee at each stage of the distribute chain. In aquaculture, the culture was existed and reared either in a brackish or freshwater ecosystem for the higher manufacture for human uptake. The shrimp yield can be enlarged by applying recent modern farming techniques, it includes the strengthening of culture operation through regularise of their size, stocking density, aeration and formulation of the feed. It will increase financial and high technique inputs for the minor farmers in the emerging countries and it cannot be afford.

In India, especially in Andhra Pradesh the shrimp farming is extensively found and till the farmers are following traditional methods which include feed manipulation and cultural activities, etc. If the shrimp is not consumed the feed properly, it leads to weakening the water and soil quality (Newport and Jawahar 1995, Phillips and Lin, 1993). So, using auto feederwhich allows the shrimp farmers to feed in lesser quantity, more recurrent, and…