Hungarian aquaculture produces sustainably

In the past two years, the sector was not only affected by water shortages and droughts, but also by an economic environment that made the situation of farmers very difficult. The costs - it doesn't matter for what reasons, since everyone already knows them well - have increased extremely, which is difficult to pay because the sector is not capital strong at all, you can even say that the working capital in the sector is small. In domestic freshwater aquaculture, pond farms produce fish on 26,000 hectares, while African catfish production has been successful in intensive farms (so successful that we are the leaders in Europe with 5-6,000 tons of African catfish production per year). A great future is predicted for the development of intensive systems, because there are more and more serious obstacles to the development of fish production in ponds, said Béla Urbányi. Prof. Dr. Béla UrbányiUniversity teacher Lake farms are not only production plants. They have a very serious role in ...