K.K. Dairy Poultry and Fisheries were established in 1998 and the original plan was to produce fish, Husbandry of the Cattle, Broiler & Layer Poultry. During the fish cultural period, company has fallen a quality fish fry problem. To get rid of this fish fry problem and for more fish production the venture of Meridian Hatchery began in 2009.
K.K. Dairy, Poultry, Fisheries & Meridian Hatchery Ltd. are concerns of Meridian Group. It is a multidimensional Fish grower farms, Sex reversal (mono sex) Tilapia Fry & Induced breeding of different types of Cat fishes, Anabas & Carp fishes that stretches 84 acres area. The Fish grower farm is located at Muhury Project under Mirsarai Upazila in Chittagong District and Hatchery is located at Muhury Project under Feni District.
The company has started its fish grower farms in 1998 and has been producing high quality of Mono sex Tilapia fry supplying the Bangladeshi fish farming industry since 2009. Utilizing a process of egg collection, incubation and sex reversal of swim-up fry in Hapas for 21-28 days, using methyl testosterone-impregnated feed under supervision of Technical Expert who has been trained by the Asian institute of technology (AIT) Bangkok, Thailand which is one of the inventive organization of mono sex Tilapia. In the meantime, the response from Bangladeshi fish farmers was overwhelming to a great extent that now it is producing up to 50 million 1 inch mono-sex fry per year and induced breeding of Pangasius & Carps fry, quantity of 10 million covering an area of 24 acres and the annual production of fish is almost 520 MT from grower farms which covers an area of 60 acres. For doing this 80 employees are engaged.
In respect of quality Fry production, our institution achieved “National Fisheries Award -2011” and “Women Entrepreneur-2005” (Mrs. Kohinoor Kamal) in the field of Fish production. Our organization is not just a Fish and Fry production rather it is a training center for the students of Bangladesh. Internship and research program are run by for the students of Dhaka University, Chittagong University and Khulna University over the years. Many Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) have been driven many training program at our project. All of them are getting benefited with our project.
Henceforth, transferring the technology & ensuring bio-security, sometimes we arrange training program for the fish farmer & provide the technical support during the culture period for better yield.
Land area of Meridian Hatchery: 24 acres
Land location of Meridian Hatchery: Hatchery is located at Muhury Project under Feni District.
Number of Hatcheries: 3
Farms Location : It is core nucleus, which presently consists of the Fish Grow out farm is located in Mirsarai Upazila under Chittagong District approximately 90 km away from Chittagong Town and 30 km away from Feni Town.
Tilapia Sex Reversal, Induced Breeding of different types of Fish, a brood-stock development Chamber farm and the nursery/sales farm is located in Sonagazi Upazila under Feni District which is approximately 30 km away from Feni Town and 90 km away from Chittagong Town.
Production Capacity
Serial No. | Species | Production pcs/yr |
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1 | Tilapia Monosex Fry | 50,000,000.00 |
2 | Carp & Other’s | 550,000.00 |
Total | 51,550,000.00 |
Species of Hatcheries
Serial No | Local Name | Scientific name | Remarks |
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1 | Tilapia Mono sex fry | Oreochromis niloticus | Maximu, |
2 | Panagasius fry | Pangasius sutchi | Moderate |
3 | Ruhi fry | Labeo rohita | Moderate |
4 | Mrighel fry | Cirrhinus cirrhosus | Moderate |
5 | Katol fry | Catla catla | Moderate |
6 | Silver Carp fry | Hypophthalmichthys molitri | Moderate | 7 | Grass Carp fry | Ctenopharyngodon idella | Moderate |
8 | Bighead fry | Hypophthalmichthys nobilis | Moderate |
9 | Kalbasu fry | Labeo calbasu | Moderate |