Fish farmer Pornchai Buapradit 46 who raises pla nil along with shrimp in Chon Buri province is one of the people who benefited greatly from this project.
“I’ve worked with pla nil for around 30 to 40 years but I only started getting serious about raising them around 15 years ago” he said. In the past pla nil was simply present in his aquacultures consumed by him and his family.
“Before I liked to farm tiger shrimp” he said “Within the pond there would be pla nil as well. As time passed tiger shrimp became harder to raise so I kept changing farming methods. I changed from tiger shrimp to whiteleg shrimp but the fish would still be living in the pond.