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Jehanabad Farmer Shares Local Hack to Cut Fish Feed Costs by Half
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News18•21-10-2026, 23:51
Jehanabad Farmer Shares Local Hack to Cut Fish Feed Costs by Half
- •Fish farming is growing in Bihar, but feed costs account for 60 percent of total expenses in a harvest cycle.
- •Rajeev Lochan, an experienced farmer from Jehanabad, shares a simple method to prepare fish feed at home.
- •Home-cooked feed using wheat bran, rice husk, mustard oil cake, and jaggery helps save up to Rs 1.25 lakh per cycle.
Key Questions Answered
Fish feed accounts for 60 percent of the total expenses in fish farming. For a 10-katha pond, this feed cost can amount to more than Rs 2.5 lakh out of a total Rs 4 lakh harvesting cycle budget.
Farmers can significantly reduce costs by preparing fish feed at home using wheat bran, rice husk, mustard oil cake, and jaggery. Boiling these ingredients, shaping them into balls after cooling, and placing them on trays in ponds can save between Rs 1 lakh and Rs 1.25 lakh per culture cycle.
Rajeev Lochan uses a combination of traditional ponds and a biofloc system tank across approximately 5 bighas of land in the Kako block of Jehanabad district.
