ABSTRACT

Aquaculture has always been an ever-expanding horizon, with new and sustainable farming methods emerging ever so frequently to increase overall efficiency and profitability. Biofloc Technology or BFT has been a comparatively new method of cultivation in this area to spark an interest in entrepreneurs. A fairly simple technology, it involves keeping varied microbial communities or Biofloc suspended in the waters and using methods like constant aeration and/or agitation, maintaining the C/N ratio of the culture water so that toxic materials to the fish like nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, biological wastes, etc. can be converted into proteinaceous food. Although this method may superficially seem very intriguing and promising for amateur farmers to gain quick profits, many unforeseen problems may arise, which might cause much greater losses than expected. Therefore, it becomes crucial that the sustainability and efficiency of this technology are critically examined, and this paper is an attempt to do so in this regard. Keywords: Biofloc, Microbial communities, Aquaculture, Sustainable farming
Publication date: 15/01/2022

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2022/11.1.1003