Myo Myint Muang is a fish farmer from Min Kone Village, Shwe Bo Township. She works with the Myanmar Sustainable Aquaculture Programme (MYSAP INLAND) project and produces fish feed pellets. Before joining MYSAP INLAND, she had little experience and knowledge on fish farming and fish-feeding formulation. Other fellow fish farmers were in the same situation and used broken rice, sesame seeds, groundnut, and cotton seeds as feed. They usually bought fish feed from local feed pellet shops, without knowing what kind of protein and what percentage of protein it contained.
Myo joined BRAC Myanmar’s Small-Scale Aquaculture project and received training on “Aquaculture and Nutrition”. In February 2019, she also joined the session on “Feed Miller Training and Machines” which taught her how to combine raw materials to produce fish feed that would provide more protein. In collaboration with the MYSAP INLAND project, she now produces high quality fish feed pellets that she sells to the other farmers.
“I am extremely happy that I have a feed miller machine that can provide good protein foods for our fish farms,” says Myo. “I would like to thank BRAC Myanmar’s Small-Scale Aquaculture project for providing us valuable and effective techniques for fish farming”.
Myo Myint Muang plans to continue operating the feed miller and produce more fish feed that has high protein content.
