Adoption of Innovative technology: Seed to fattening of mud crab (Scylla olivacea) and health management in Bangladesh condition.

A.    General objective:

Development and establish a framework of mud crab aquaculture for sustainable production through conducting research on each critical stages of life cycle in accounting the pathogenic (microbial) threats on respective stages.

i)        To enumerate bacterial load and type/infection level in Mud crab hatchery, farms and in wild mud crab, S. olivacea.

ii)      To record disease incidence in mud crab (S. olivacea) population in the south-west coastal region of Bangladesh

iii)    To determine the association of other driving factors (i.e. soil and water quality) with infection/diseases occurrence in mud crab, S. olivacea. 

• Research Project