Volume : IV, Issue : IV, April - 2014

Probiotics in Aquaculture : Potential for Sustainable Development

P. V. Krishna, K. Madhusudhana Rao, D. Srinivasa Rao

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 Aquaculture industry is an important source for animal protein food producing sector utilizing the natural resources and has become a fast developing industry creating several employment opportunities.  Sustainable production is affected by multiple factors including poor water quality management, nutritionally imbalanced supplementary feeds and the disease incidence.  The occurrence of pathogenic and non–pathogenic diseases resulted in a consistent damage to the industry.  To control these diseases indiscriminate use of chemicals and drugs which are reported not to be environment friendly and hence use of antibiotics and certain drugs has been banned in aquaculture industry.  The presence of antibiotic residues in culture organisms i.e., fish / prawn / shrimps are rejected by the European countries in the recent years.  When they are faced disease problems, the common response from the aqua farmer has been to use to antimicrobial drugs.

 

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P.V. Krishna, K. Madhusudhana Rao and D.Srinivasa Rao Probiotics in aquaculture : Potential for sustainable development Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.IV, Issue. IV

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