Snail Farming a MiniLivestock business

[Ismail AbdulAzeez]

The New Agriculturist writes about heliculture in Africa "...Snails fit in well with other farming activities, helping to fertilize the soil prior to cultivation of other crops. And those of unmarketable size can be fed to pigs, shells included...Snaileries can vary from a patch of fence-protected ground, sheltered from the wind, to a wooden box or movable pen. Also widely used are trenches or pits which, provided they protect the snails from predators (rats, lizards, centipedes etc.) also work well. Ash, neem or tobacco leaves help to deter natural predators..."In Ghana snails "...are also important source of foreign exchange, “The meat is not only a delicacy but is a component of what the rural Ghanaian will call a complete meal,” said Adotei Brown, an expert in snail farming at Alternative Technology for the Livelihood of Development and Application of Intermediate Technology (DAPIT). Presently the consumption level of snails by Ghanaians is over 15,000 tonnes, however not even a quarter emanates from the country, about 13,000 comes from neighbouring Cote d’Ivoire

Source: timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.com/2005/11/minilivestocksnail-farming.html


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