IMAQulate project postdoc Mahmoud El Thoth has been in Andhra Pradesh since September conducting these surveys, assisted by a team of student enumerators from Pithapur Rajah's College, Kakinada. Together they have conducted around 200 surveys of farmers across the state. 

Aquaculture: Pandering to the elite or a tool for rural development and food security - South African student refers to Professor Little's Uppsala presentation in her blog......    

Professor David   Little gave a presentation entitled Diverse aquaculture and its societal impacts - Roles of South - south learning ....   at the Agriculture for Development Conference Uppsala Sweden 21st Sept 2017  

We are delighted to launch the IMAQulate website today!

http://www.stir.ac.uk/imaqulate/ 

With information on the project team, workplan and resources, it will be updated regularly with news of our activities! The BBSRC   funded IMAQulate Project is   working in India Bangladesh and   Kenya to look into the use of Prophylactic Health Products (PHP's)  in the shrimp and finfish aquaculture sectors in each country.

The Institute of Aquaculture welcomed 4 visitors from the South African Dept of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries this week

The IMAQulate project team recently returned from a trip to Andhra Pradesh, India, where they met with stakeholders to discuss the initiation of a probiotics trial.

Malaysian researcher Umi Salmah from the University of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture and funded by the BBSRC Newton Fund Global Research Partnership (GRP): IMAQulate Project conducting her studies within the disease challenge facility of Fish Vet Group Asia based in Chonburi Thailand  

Thi Be Gam Tran, a Vietnamese national started her MSc thesis project to review recent changes in the sector and describe the current practices of sludge removal management in Pangasius farms and other uses of the sludge in the Mekong Delta