Low Carbon Aquaculture System

Nitrogen entering a farm through animal feeds ends up as ammonia in manure. Ammonia volatilization is a major process of N loss that affects the environment. The best way of capturing volatilized ammonia-N could be using zeolite as a good ion exchange medium before it gets either volatilized or nitrified. Thus captured ammonia-N could be used as a source of inorganic nitrogen in ponds to promote algal production without adding additional organic carbon and BOD. The nitrogen transferring mechanism developed not only avoided nitrogen loss but also could generate biogas an additional income to farmer. The low carbon aquaculture system developed and low Carbon Foot Print of the product enhances the value of production system and the products.