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Asian Institute of Technology has produced over 500 MSc & PhD graduates in the field of aquaculture / fisheries, and trained over 1,000 government officials and private company managers / entrepreneurs from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam and several others from African, American, Australian and European countries.

Aquaculture Training Program

Course 1: Recent Advances in Tropical Aquaculture

Lecture 1 - Role of aquaculture
Lecture 2 - History of aquaculture
Lecture 3 - Aquaculture and rural development
Lecture 4 - Integrated aquaculture systems
Lecture 5 - Green water aquaculture
Lecture 6 - Intensive commercial aquaculture
Lecture 7 - Site selection and planning
Lecture 8 - Environment impact assessment (EIA)

Course 2: Commercial Tilapia Hatchery & Grow-out Techniques

Lecture 1: AIT Hatchery Technology
Lecture 2: Fisheries / Aquaculture: Global Perspective
Lecture 3: Tilapia Farming: Status and Trends Worldwide
Lecture 4: Farm / Hatchery Design and Layout
Lecture 5: Tilapia Grow-out Systems
Lecture 6: Water Quality Monitoring and Management
Lecture 7: Feeds & Feeding Management
Lecture 8: Economics and Marketing
Lecture 9: Health Management & Bio-security
Lecture 10: Fish Processing, Food Quality & Safety
Lecture 11: Tilapia Hatchery / Farm Business Plan
Practicals: Brood preparation, harvest, cleaning, weighing,
incubation, MT feed preparation, feeding, nursing, grading, conditioning, packing & selling

Course 3: Shrimp / Prawn Farming

Lecture 1 - Biology of shrimp / prawn
Lecture 2 - Broodfish maturation and breeding
Lecture 4 - Larval rearing
Lecture 5 - Nursing techniques
Lecture 6 - Grow-out methods
Lecture 7 - Nutrition and feeding management
Lecture 8 - Health management
Lecture 9 - Integration/rotation with other species
Lecture 10 - Post harvest and processing
Lecture 11 - Certification and food safety
Lecture 12 - Marketing and value chain

Course 4: Catfish / Pangasius Culture

Lecture 1 - Biology, and production status & trend
Lecture 2 - Broodfish maturation and breeding
Lecture 4 - Egg Incubation and larval rearing
Lecture 5 - Nursing techniques
Lecture 6 - Grow-out methods
Lecture 7 - Nutrition and feeding management
Lecture 8 - Health management and bio-security
Practice: Hormone injection, stripping, incubation etc.


Course 5: Farm Design and Planning

Lecture 1 - Site selection
Lecture 2 - Lay-out and designing structures
Lecture 3 - Tank / Pond Construction and preparation
Lecture 4 - Hapa set-up, cleaning and maintenance
Lecture 5 - Biological and slow-sand filters
Lecture 6 - Pumps, aerators and other equipment
Lecture 7 - Water supply and drainage canals
Lecture 8 - Safety and maintenance

Course 6: Asian Seabass / Baramundi Breeding, Nursing & Grow-out

Lecture 1 - Background
Lecture 2 - Breeding method
Lecture 4 - Nursing & grading
Lecture 5 - Grow-out systems
Lecture 6 - Nutrition & feed formulation
Lecture 7 - Marketing, Processing & Cooking
Practice & field visit in Private farms

Course 7: Sustainable Fisheries:

Lecture 1 - Global Fisheries: Global and Regional Perspectives
Lecture 2 - Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management
Lecture 3 - Wetland Ecosystem Management
Lecture 4 - Evolution of Aquaculture in Asia and Increasing Role on Livelihoods
Lecture 5 - Intensive Farming: Livelihoods and the Environment
Lecture 6 - Fish Trade, Food Safety and Certification

Course 8: Feed Formulation and Feed Manufacture

Lecture 1 - Basic principles of fish nutrition
Lecture 2 - Feeding behaviour of fish species
Lecture 3 - Nutrient requirements of various species
Lecture 4 - Feed ingredients and their composition
Lecture 5 - On-farm feeds and feed ingredients
Lecture 6 - Feed supplements
Lecture 7 - Feed formulations
Lecture 8 - Feed manufacture
Lecture 9 - Live feeds
Lecture 10 - Fish feeds and marketing

Course 9: Research Design and Data Analysis

Lecture 1 - Introduction and scope
Lecture 2 - Research design (survey and experiment)
Lecture 3 - Sampling and data collection
Lecture 4 - Data compilation and exploratory data analysis
Lecture 5 - Simple hypothesis testing
Lecture 6 - Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multiple range tests
Lecture 7 - Simple and multiple regression, and correlation
Lecture 8 - Multivariate analysis
Lecture 9 - Non-parametric tests
Lecture 10 - Writing results / scientific papers

Course 10: Aquaculture Business Planning & Management

Lecture 1 - Global aquaculture business
Lecture 2 - History and evolution of aquaculture
Lecture 3 - Product development and quality control
Lecture 4 - Writing aqua business plan
Lecture 5 - Team building / Human resource management
Lecture 6 - Supply chain management
Lecture 7 - Marketing management
Lecture 8 - Managerial accounting
Lecture 9 - Business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Lecture 10 - Writing reports / presentation

Course 11: Re-circulatory Aquaculture System
Lecture 1 - Site selection
Lecture 2 - Lay-out and designing structures
Lecture 3 - Tanks, filtration system & sanitation
Lecture 4 - Pumps, aerators and other equipment
Lecture 5 - Fish species: marine and fresh water species
Lecture 6 - Feeds and feeding
Lecture 7 - Water supply & quality monitoring
Lecture 8 - Safety and maintenance

Course 12: Value Chain Actors in Aquaculture
Lecture 1 - Recent Advances in Aquaculture
Lecture 2 - Evolution of Aquaculture: Subsistence to Commercial
Lecture 3 - Feeds and Inputs Services
Lecture 4 - Economics / Cost-Effectiveness
Lecture 5 - Models of Aquaculture Development
Workshop 1 - Identifying & analyzing value chain actors
Workshop 2 - Technology, Business Plan and Implementation
Workshop 3 - Impact Assessments (Socio-economics & Environmental)

Course 13: Aqua-ponics
Lecture 1 - Principles and practices
Lecture 2 - Suitable fish species and vegetables
Lecture 4 - Water quality and nutrient / waste recycling
Lecture 5 - System designing
Lecture 6 - Energy requirements e.g. Electricity, solar power and rainwater collection
Lecture 7 - Vegetable gardening
Lecture 8 - Fish-Prawn-vegetable farming
Lecture 9 - Economics and Business plan


Training Fees:
1-week (US$1,000)
2-week (US$1,500)
3-week (US$2,000)
4-5 weeks (US$2,500)
6-8 weeks (US$3,000)
9-12 weeks (US$3,500)
6-month / Semester

Contact detail :
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
PO Box 4, Klong Luang Pathumthani 12120, Thailand


Email: bhujel@ait.asia or Coordinator@aarm-asialink.info or Skype: Ram.Bhujel
Tel: 66 (02) 524 5222 Mobile: 66 (081) 734 6934