Mr. G. Sathyanarayana Raju is engaged in shrimp farming for the last 15 years. He is a first-generation farmer. He entered this field in his own interest. Before coming to the aquaculture field he was a LIC Agent. He is not only a farmer but also our Leading Dealer in West Godavari, Eluru Region under the banner, Chandrika Aqua Needs.  He is doing shrimp farming in a 4-hectare area.

His Farmed Shrimps suffering from severe vibriosis. He tried most of the products which claim to control white gut with vibrios. Nothing worked. When he used the V Phages Growout, it gave good result. He has applied V PHAGES GROWOUT in his total 15-acre ponds in this location, one 10 acre and another 5 acres pond. He used both as Pond water application and Feed application. In this 5-acre pond, since 15 days, shrimps are suffering with Running mortality and white gut. After using the V PHAGES GROWOUT, Shrimps has recovered from the infections. RMS reduced in 3-5 days. After 5^th day, no white gut shrimps are visible in ponds. In another 2 ponds, 5 acre each stocked with same batch of seeds on same day, were harvested at 180 Count and 200 Count. But this pond is harvested at 100 Count. His observation on V PHAGES GROWOUT is good in acting against Vibrios and works only on Pathogenic vibrios but not on Probiotics or harmless bacteria. This is found by farmer, seeing the lab test and animal, which are doing fine.

Minati Nayak is a 50-year-old Shrimp farmer from Silda, Balasore, Odisha. She is a dedicated hard-working farmer. She has three daughters and a son. Her son is a teacher in a government school. Besides farming, she runs a small saree boutique in Silda, Chania.

She has ten years of experience in shrimp farming. She has two ponds and a reservoir pond in an area of 7000 m2. She encountered white fecal diseases while farming. For her successful culture, she consistently used SMPL products Grow up, Build-Up, Seedone, Aquaone, Gut Act, Yeast 5 G, Rider, Yuka, B-Yuka 30, Raksha, and Macro – PS. She takes care of her farm along with her son and our staff Chandan Kumar.

The shrimp attained a marketable with an average body weight of 25 grams in a crop period of 78 days with an FCR of 1.3. The farmer harvested a crop of 1.55 tonnes of shrimps from an area of 2000m².

Mr. Susanto Nayak is a 40 years old shrimp farmer from Silda, Odisha. He has a vast experience in shrimp farming for over 23 years. He owned a farm area of 1.2 ha, which is used for shrimp farming. He has 5 ponds and 1 reservoir pond.

We are giving consultancy services to him since 2018. He used our products for his successful farming. He has harvested 4 tons from 2 ponds with an average body weight of 40 grams in 110 DOC with an FCR of 1.3. 

Himansu Shee is a shrimp farmer from Baleshwar, Odisha. He started his farming in 2008 with black tiger shrimp. Based on his interest only he came into aquaculture. He has 6 years of experience in this field. He has 3 sites, an 11-acre area, and 13 ponds. His Farm Name is Arowana Fishery situated at Mahadev Pal, Kirtonia, Baleshwar.

He faced WSSV and WFS problems in his culture. These problems are solved by using Salem Microbe Products. Apart from farming, he is giving consultancy services also to nearby farmers.

Subramanyam is a 29 years old Young progressive shrimp farmer from Puligumma, Pamulaparru, West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh. His father is an agriculturalist. He has 5 years of experience in shrimp farming. Before entering the farming, he was employed at shrimp farms as a feed boy and supervisor.  His interest and experience in the field led him to start shrimp farming on his own land in 2017. Now he runs a shrimp farm on four acres.

He harvested Shrimp with an average body weight of 20 grams in a crop period of 90 days, which falls in 50 counts with an FCR of 1.28. He harvested a crop of 10 tonnes of shrimps from an area of 4-acre ponds.

The farmer faced EHP and WSSV problems during the culture. These problems are overtaken by using SMPL products Aqua One, Seedone Growout, Growup, Rider, O Gen Tabs, and Vansafe. 

Kesamraju is a shrimp farmer from Adavikolanu Village, Nidamarru (Mandal), West Godavari District. He has seven years of experience in Vannamei farming. He is a first-generation farmer, and before coming to aquaculture he was in agriculture. Puneethvarma, a diploma-holder, is also assisting him in Vannamei farming.

He owns a six-acre site with three ponds. A stocking density of 45PL/m2 was used to stock all 3 ponds with shrimp. During the crop period of 100 days, the shrimp reached a marketable weight of 35 grams on average. The farmer harvested a crop of 22 tonnes of shrimps from an area of 6 Acres.

In his farming, he encountered EHP problems. SMPL products Aqua One, Seedone Growout, Growup, and Bac check helped him recover from diseases and succeed with his culture.  

K.N.V. Ratna Babu is a degree-holding shrimp farmer located in Machilipatnam Mandel, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh. He entered the aquaculture field based on his family background. He has about 5 years of experience in aquaculture and owns about 32 acres of shrimp ponds. Initially, he started with fish farming and then convert it into shrimp farming.

He has 3 farm sites (Kona, Polatithippa, and Patheru) in Machilipatnam. The shrimps attained a marketable with an average body weight of 25 grams in a crop period of 86 days, which falls in 40 counts with an FCR of 1.4. He has harvested 12.6 tonnes from a 6-acre pond.

He used Salem microbes products, Vansafe, Prevent-WFS, Salmin, and Growup for his farming. He said Van Safe product gives a good result, reduces Ammonia and Nitrite very well, and improves the feed intake.

Mr. G. Sathyanarayana Raju is engaged in shrimp farming for the last 15 years. He is a first-generation farmer. He entered this field in his own interest. Before coming to the aquaculture field he was a LIC Agent.

He is not only a farmer but also our Leading Dealer in West Godavari, Eluru Region under the banner, Chandrika Aqua Needs.  He is doing shrimp farming in a 4-hectare area. He partially harvested shrimp twice in the middle of the culture, 50 and 40 counts respectively. In July 2022, the remaining shrimps reached a marketable weight of 45 grams in a crop period of 120 days, which falls into 22 counts with an FCR of 1.5. He regularly uses our products, GROW UP, BAC CHECK, SEEDONE and AQUAONE.

Mr. Umakanth Behera is a well-qualified and progressive shrimp entrepreneur from Mahadevpal, Balasore, Orissa. He is engaged in shrimp farming for the last 20 years. He is the pioneer in establishing a farm in Balasore, Odisha. Initially, he farmed Tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) the native shrimp species and ruling variety since the inception of commercial shrimp aquaculture in the late eighties. He has a brackish water farm of 31.5 acres having 57 ponds. He has strong linkages with state and central govt. organizations and is involved at the field level demonstrations of shrimps. He is not only a farmer also serving as a dealer in shrimp farming-related businesses such as feed and chemicals distribution.

He used the following shrimp health products from our company viz., SeedOne, GrowUp, Ecobeat, Macro-PS, B-Yuka 30, and Blue Bolt for his successful culture.  Regular water and health quality monitoring was observed by the scientists through technicians, besides from time to time-on-site visits of Salem Microbes field staffs for technical guidance. The shrimps attained a marketable with an average body weight of 32 grams in a crop period of 91 days, which falls in 33 counts with an FCR of 1.1. The farmer harvested a crop of 3 tonnes of shrimps from an area of 3000m². With proper technical guidance of Salem Microbes and Good Management Practices, he has achieved good results. 

Mr.Bijay nayak is a progressive shrimp farmer in Silda, Balasore, Odisha. Aquaculture shrimp production in Odisha has risen over the past few years to around 30,000 tonnes a year, making the state the fifth largest producer after Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat. The farmer has 20 years’ experience in shrimp farming and owns a farm area of 30 acres at 3 sites, which is used for shrimp farming. In which, he constructed 22 farms for shrimp culture. He is not only a farmer also serving as dealer in shrimp farming related businesses such as feed and chemicals distribution. Due to his experience and interest, he is constructing Ice Plant in his site.

This year, in first crop season, he stocked 4 million vannamei seeds in his ponds. The stocking of shrimp seeds ( PL 12 ) in a 3000 m² pond sourced from a Coastal Aquaculture Authority (CAA) certified hatchery in Andhra Pradesh. The ponds were stocked with 90,000 PL (Stocking density – 30 PL/m2) during the morning hours following standard acclimation procedure. For first 30 days he has given blind feed for shrimps. After first sampling he has given feeds based on bodyweight of shrimps. He has given Salem Microbes medicines to the shrimps. Regular water and health quality monitoring was observed by the scientists through technicians, besides time to time onsite visits for technical guidance. SeedOne, Salmin, B-Yuka 30, BacCheck, StepUp, Rescue, EcoBeat, Grow Up, Macro PS, Virzon Aqua and Blue Bolt products from Salem Microbes were used for his successful culture. Regular samples of the shrimp were taken to the laboratory for screening of pathogens during the culture. The shrimp attained a marketable with an average body weight of 35 grams in a crop period of 94 days, which falls in 28 counts with an FCR of 1.1. The farmer harvested a crop of 2 tonnes of shrimps from an area of 3000m². The said success is attracting many farmers of the area. So it is recommended to strictly follow BMP. Besides recurring seed from CAA approved hatcheries screened for pathogens like EHP, WSSV,IHHNV, MBV, AHPND and IMNV. Strict adherence to BMPs and Bio-security protocols is a way forward towards sustainable shrimp farming.

Rabindranath Bahara is a farmer cum dealer located at Barabuda, Balitutha, Kujang, Jagatsinghapur District, Orissa. He started shrimp farming in the year of 1995 and has 26 years of experience in the aquaculture field. Before coming to this field, he was doing Shrimp and Fish export business to the other states at a small level. He is the first-generation farmer involved in the shrimp farming field in his family.  His area is not fit for Agri Farming due to the non- fertility land. But this area is well suited for Shrimp farming because his area is fully covered by a brackish water canal and also so many potentialities to culture vannamei and black tiger shrimp for that he entered in this field.  Before coming to the Vannamei farming he was cultured Black Tiger Shrimp on his farm successfully. He is a large farmer, having 5 sites with 85 ponds. The total area of the farm is 20 ha. His farm name is Chapali Farm located at Mahakalpara, Kndrapara. In his farming, he faced organic load and white fecal disease problem and overcame through the use of SMPL Products like Top Soil, Macro PS, Gut Act, Rescue, and Raksha.

Also, He is owned with Bahera Aqua Feeds shop at Balitutha. He is a dealer for Aqua health products and Feeds. He is covering 20 farms nearly 150 ponds. He is doing business for Salem Microbes, Falcon, Avanti, Devi, CP, National aqua Care Products, and Supreme BioSolutions companies.  He is selling 300 MT feeds per year.

Tristar Aquatic Farm is located Nearby Basudevpur, 25km away from krisnandapur, District, Odisha. This farm is run by three owners, Gagan bihari Pradhan, Naresh Chandra Pradhan and Nanda paneegrahi. They own a farm area of 60 acres in 3 sites, having 55 ponds which are used for shrimp farming. They are culturing Vannamei for the past 3 years continuously and successfully.

Panchan das is a 47 years old shrimp farmer from the village of Panchagada, Balasore district, Orissa. He has 6-year experience in the field. He is not only culturing shrimps also doing fish farming and fish selling business. He has been blessed with 2 children. He is involved in farming with his family. He owns a farm area of 3 acres which is used for shrimp and fish culture.

He is under the service guidance of SALEM MICROBES PRIVATE LIMITED. We have been monitoring the shrimp ponds with the field staff and water samples analyzed by our AOC lab at Navasari.

The ponds were stocked (40pcs/m2) with PCR Tested seed brought from CAA certified hatchery on March and harvested in the second week of June due to the better price. He achieved 80% survival and the FCR rate is 1.3 with the support of SMPL.