Ukrainians are advised to cultivate mussels, profitability – 900%

The northwestern part of the Black Sea water area of ​​about 200 hectares -. A favorable environment for the cultivation of mussels and oysters. And this highly profitable business can be revived under certain investments.

News reports citing Agronews.org The Ukrainian Farmer.

As you know, in their nutritional value on the order of clams surpass the traditional meat of land animals. The potential market for mussels in Ukraine is about 145 thousand. Tons a year, and he is satisfied mainly by imports from other countries. Thus the development of the market slowed down the depletion of natural resources Ukrainian sea shelf and the lack of industrial aquaculture.

According to research, to create a modern oyster-mussel fields in the 200 hectares of new land with infrastructure investment funds in the bays of the Black Sea will be about $ 2.8 million.

Significantly larger areas are in open sea waters with depths of up to 10-30 m 3, corresponding to the optimal management of industrial needs.

For 14 months mussel increases of up to 7-8 cm, and becomes the trade of seafood, the price of which in Ukraine is about 150-200 hryvnia per kilogram of pure meat. Meat yield is 12% of the total weight of the mollusc.

Payback of modern enterprises – after 3 years when the profitability of more than 900% (excluding taxes).

Wikipedia: mariculture – industrial breeding of marine aquatic resources (fish, invertebrates, algae) or other products in special farms in open areas of the ocean, in its coastal areas, reservoirs, ponds, water filled with sea water.

Mussels – genus of marine bivalve molluscs of the family mytilids. Some characterizes cosmopolitan distribution. Sizes from medium to large. Widely used as a food and in mariculture.

The volume of world production of molluscs is nearly 12 million tons. Midia is the most common bivalves. It is interesting that, according to scientists, the average biomass of mussels in the Black Sea is about 10 kg per square meter.

For example, in France alone annually grow 50 thousand. Tonnes of mussels, in China, the annual production of more than 600 thous. Tons. Scientists estimate that one acre of so-called mussel banks (the term referred to the place where the mussels attach and lives a colony) can be harvested annually 4.5 tons of pure meat of shellfish, which is approximately three million calories. For comparison – one acre of pasture yields an average of 15 kg of beef, equivalent to 200 thousand calories..

According to the materials: http://agronews.org/5682-ukraintsam-sovetuyut-kultivirovat-midij-rentabelnost-900