Pond preparation and food requirements
- Carry out thorough pond preparation such as crack drying, liming and tilling once a year.
- Prepare the ponds grown with lab-lab before fish stocking.
- Apply organic and inorganic fertilizer to stimulate growth of natural food organisms.
- Extend pond preparation and food growing in grow-out ponds to 45 days to allow more time for the abundant growth of lab-lab.
Schedule pond preparation and food growing
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ACTIVITIES |
CUMULATIVE DAYS FOR COMPLETION OF ACTIVITIES |
| 1 Pond draining, soil sealing, leveling and repair. | 1 |
| 2. Pond drying. | 2-7 |
| 3. Gate screening | 2 |
| 4. Pest and predator control | 2 |
| 5. liming (optional for low pH) | 2 |
| 6. Washing | 7 |
| 7. Organic fertilization (2 tons/ha) | 8 |
| 8. First water intake, 5 cm | 8 |
| 9. Evaporation | 8-17 |
| 10. Inorganic fertilization 3 sacks/ha 21-0-0 | 11 |
| 11. second water intake, 10 cm | 18 |
| 12. fertilizer dressing, 25 kg/ha 16-20-0 | 18 |
| 13. third water intake 14 cm | 25 |
| 14. Fertilizer dressing, 25kg/ha, 46-0-0 | 25 |
| 15. Fourth water intake, 20 cm | 32 |
| 16. fertilizer dressing 25kg/ha 16-20-0 | |
| 17. fifth water intake, 25 cm | 39 |
| 18. Fertilizer dressing 25kg/ha, 16-20-0 | 39 |
| 19. sixth water intake, 30 cm | 45 |
| 20 fish stocking | 46 |
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Source: Semi-intensive culture of Milkfish, DA brochure