Intregated fish farming with poultry is generally cultured as the poultry manure is a very efficient fertilizer for fish ponds. The poultry droppings comprises 2%nitrogen, 1.25%phoshoric acid and 0.75%potash. The low feeding cost per individual bird makes poultry farming along with fish, a common investment for poor farmers.
Intregation of chicken with fish farming is an economically viable and productive system for both rural farmers and commercial entrepreneurs. Supplemental feed and fertilizers-the high cost inputs in fish farming are not needed in such systems and the cost of inputs is therefore reduced.
The droppings of birds in this system are utilized to fertilize the pond. Poultry litter recycled into fish pond produces 6000kg fish per hectare per year.
Profit of layer cum fish faming ;
1. By selling of eggs.
2. By selling of fishes.
3. By selling of chickens at the end of egg production at considerable rate.

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