Farming in desert,
and that too fish farming,
would seem an impossible
task to most. But a team of
enterprising farmers led by
Yitzhak Levy has developed a
super intensive technique to
produce yields which are not
only profitable but also
much higher than those of
fish ponds in favourable conditions.
The Nizanne Sinai farming settlement lies in the
Negev desert in southern
Israel. The fish ponds teeming with thousands of tilapia
and carp are enclosed in
eight green bubbles. The
green bubbles are made of
plastic sheets and are well-
ventilated. The computer-
controlled bubble ponds are
heated with the help of the
the blazing desert sun.
According to farmers, the
ponds produce upto 20 kg of
fish per cu m - the highest
yield in the world for closed
warm water ponds. Each
us $650,000 pool produces
eight to ten tonnes of fish
annually.
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