Published 12 Jul,2020 via Muscat Daily - The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MoAF) signed two agreements with Fisheries Development Company (FDO) on Sunday. The two pacts include the establishment and management of a national aquatic quarantine facility for shrimps broodstock, at an estimated cost of RO600,000, and the allotment of land for the construction of the quarantine facility.
The agreement includes building a quarantine facility with an annual capacity of about 16,000 pairs of shrimps, which is able to produce seeds to be used by shrimp aquaculture projects located across the sultanate.
The agreement was signed by H E Eng Yaqoub bin Khalfan bin Khamis al Busaidi undersecretary at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries for Fisheries and by Sheikh Nasser Bin Sulaiman al Harthy, vice chairman, FDO.
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