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Sustainable duckweed production as a protein source for aquaculture

Description

Switzerland is not supplied with sufficient amounts of protein for feed production, but has to import the main proportion from other countries. Duckweed can show high growth rates and protein contents on diluted manure and can reach production rates per squaremeter which are comparable to commonly used terrestrial plants. However the harvest of duckweed is time consuming and this leads to the need of an automatic concept for their culture.The project will clarify how high production efficiency and biosafety of a duckweed culture can be guaranteed and if fish can be sucessfully fed with duckweed. The feeding trials will be conducted with different fish species.

Key Data

Projectlead

Dr. Constanze Pietsch-Schmied, Dr. Dominik Refardt, Dr. Timo Stadtlander

Project partners

Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau FiBL

Project status

completed, 01/2018 - 06/2022

Funding partner

Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft BLW

Project budget

500'000 CHF