BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 14
Trend:
Turkmenistan is looking to expand its fish farms, Trend reports with reference to Turkmenportal Informational Portal.
More than 40 fish farms are currently operating in the country. Those farms are the members of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan.
The products of Khazar Balyk open joint stock company can be cited as an example of Turkmenistan’s famous fish farms. This company grows expensive varieties of fishes, such as sturgeon. Khazar Balyk is also engaged in export of canned sardines. This joint stock company also started using small crustaceans as fish food.
Another example - the Toy Zaman company that operates in Turkmenistan’s Ahal region. The company grows juvenile fish and then releases it into Turkmenistan’s lakes.
Meanwhile, Myradym enterprise in the country's Lebap region is going to build a farm in the Kerki district to produce fish with a volume of 100 tons per year. A fish processing plant with an annual capacity of 100 tons will also be built. At the same time, the trout farm will be built by the Elin Balyk economic society in the Baharly district of Turkmenistan’s Akhal region.