EXCELLENT ! EXCELLENT! EXCELLENT! Long tv documentary on RISE AND SHINE tv show in Belize, on AQUAPONICS OPERATION IN A MAN'S BACKYARD SOMEPLACE IN BELIZE?
The tv show never mentioned intelligibly, where this acquaponics operation was? Some place called BANK? Maybe Willows Bank, or Lords Bank village? But a guy and his wife, ( Jones ) did a fantastic job of constructing a TILAPIA fish pond operation in plastic tanks in his backyard. The secret to production was supplying air bubbles to oxygenate the water. After four years development, starting with $50 Bz and six fish fingerlings, the guy is now producing 250 lbs of fish fillet per month, at a cost of $4 bz per pound, wholesale, from his small house lot.
To improve things, he is using his nitrogen rich fish tank water, to fertilize a hydroponic lettuce operation and offering bagged FRESH LETTUCE weekly to restaurants and hotels, using lettuce roots dangling from a float board, into the circulating fish tank waste water. ( EXTRA $300 PER WEEK ) By then he filters the water and recirculates it, so his water cost is minimal. The only question I had was; WHAT ABOUT ELECTRICITY RELIABILITY. Would like to see this. He combined hydroponics and a fish farm into a combined AQUAPONICS operation, feedback self supporting. WONDERFUL JOB.
GOVERNMENT OF BELIZE, YOU NEED TO GET A GRANT AND HIRE THIS JONES, TO BUILD A DEMONSTRATION SYSTEM AT - UNIVERSITY OF BELIZE, AGRICULTURE COLLEGE.- THIS IS WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR AT THE BELIZE AGRICULTURE COLLEGE, 8 YEARS AGO, INSTEAD OF THAT DAMNED SINGLE CONCRETE TANK, THEY PLAYED AROUND WITH LIKE BLIND MEN.
IT WOULD BE SELF SUSTAINING IN FIVE YEARS.
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Aquaponics is the revolution of modern day farming.Mr Jones Visited our evening division at Ecumenical College in Dangriga. i was very amazed with his presentation. now i want to get into that kind of farming.
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