trained nearly 1,000 government officials and private company managers / entrepreneurs from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam and several other countries including from Africa and Europe. The short-term training offered by AIT helps to keep up-to-date in terms of knowledge on recent developments in aquaculture and to acquire specific hands-on skills. A wide range of training courses are offered repeatedly which are as follows: Course 1: General Aquaculture This training course provides basic principles of aquaculture, its role in rural development, food security and income generation. In addition, gives a lot of ideas about where and how fish farming can be applied. This course is suitable for beginners who have simple biology or agriculture background. Lecture 1 - Why aquaculture? Lecture 2 - History of aquaculture Lecture 3 - Aquaculture and rural development Lecture 4 - Integrated aquaculture systems Lecture 5 - Green water aquaculture Lecture 6 - Intensive commercial aquaculture Lecture 7 - Site selection and planning Lecture 8 - Environment impact assessment (EIA) Course 2: Commercial Tilapia Hatchery and Grow-out Techniques This course includes a 2-hr lecture each day followed by 3-4 hrs hands-on practice on producing millions of high quality tilapia fry and table fish. In addition, it gives a lot of ideas about where and how tilapia farming can be applied. This course is suitable for those who want to start tilapia business / farm immediately or who want to provide consultancy to others.
Lecture 2 - Reproduction and broodfish management Lecture 3 - Egg collection, Incubation & larval rearing Lecture 4 - Sex-reversal and nursing Lecture 5 - Conditioning, packing and transportation Lecture 6 - Grow-out culture (pond and cages) Lecture 7 - Hatchery design and layout Lecture 8 - Pond and water quality management Lecture 9 - Nutrition and feeding management Lecture 10 - Health management and Bio-security Lecture 11 - Production economics and marketing Lecture 12 - Post harvest and processing Lecture 13 - Cooking methods and presentations Lecture 14 - Certification and food safety Lecture 15 - Hatchery and farm business planning Course 3: Macrobrachium / Prawn Farming
Lecture 2 - Broodfish maturation and breeding Lecture 4 - Larval rearing Lecture 5 - Nursing techniques Lecture 6 - Grow-out methods Lecture 7 - Nutrition and feeding management Lecture 8 - Health management Lecture 9 - Integration/rotation with other species Lecture 10 - Post harvest and processing Lecture 11 - Certification and food safety Lecture 12 - Marketing and value chain
Lecture 2 - Broodfish maturation and breeding Lecture 4 - Egg Incubation and larval rearing Lecture 5 - Nursing techniques Lecture 6 - Grow-out methods Lecture 7 - Nutrition and feeding management Lecture 8 - Health management
Lecture 2 - Lay-out and designing structures Lecture 3 - Tank / Pond Construction and preparation Lecture 4 - Hapa set-up, cleaning and maintenance Lecture 5 - Biological and slow-sand filters Lecture 6 - Pumps, aerators and other equipment Lecture 7 - Water supply and drainage canals Lecture 8 - Safety and maintenance
Lecture 2 - Biology of fish/animal species Lecture 4 - Nutrient / waste recycling Lecture 5 - Rice-fish farming Lecture 6 - Fish-livestock farming Lecture 7 - Fish-Vegetable gardening Lecture 8 - Fish-Prawn-vegetable/rice farming
Lecture 2 - Suitable fish species and vegetables Lecture 4 - Nutrient / waste recycling Lecture 5 - System designing Lecture 6 - Solar power and rainwater collection Lecture 7 - Vegetable gardening Lecture 8 - Fish-Prawn-vegetable farming
Lecture 2 - Feeding behaviour of fish species Lecture 3 - Nutrient requirements of various species Lecture 4 - Feed ingredients and their composition Lecture 5 - On-farm feeds and feed ingredients Lecture 6 - Feed supplements Lecture 7 - Feed formulations Lecture 8 - Feed manufacture Lecture 9 - Feed quality tests Lecture 10 - Live feeds Lecture 11 - Research and development Lecture 12 - Fish feeds and marketing
In this course, participants will have a hands-on practical session (3 hrs) after each theory session (1:30 hrs) starting from simple statistical functions in MS Excel then use of SPSS, MiniTab and/or other sofware programs.
Lecture 2 - Research design (survey and experiment) Lecture 3 - Sampling and data collection Lecture 4 - Data compilation and exploratory data analysis Lecture 5 - Simple hypothesis testing Lecture 6 - Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multiple range tests Lecture 7 - Simple and multiple regression, and correlation Lecture 8 - Multivariate analysis Lecture 9 - Non-parametric tests Lecture 10 - Writing results / scientific papers
This course has been designed, upon request, for the Executive / Senior Managers, CEOs and Consultants with no technical background but are planning to start aqua business and oversee it.
Lecture 2 - History and evolution of aquaculture Lecture 3 - Product development and quality control Lecture 4 - Writing aqua business plan Lecture 5 - Team building / Human resource management Lecture 6 - Supply chain management Lecture 7 - Marketing management Lecture 8 - Managerial accounting Lecture 9 - Business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) Lecture 10 - Writing reports / presentation
1-week (US$1,000) 2-week (US$1,500) 3-week (US$2,000) 4-week (US$2,500) 5-week or more: add US$300 to the 4-week fee for every additional week
Money matter: Training fee should be paid in advance to ensure the seat via bank transfer to: Bank name: Siam Commercial Bank Branch: AIT Branch Bank address: 58 Moo 9 Paholyothin Rd., Km 42, Klongluang, Pathumtani 12120, Thailand Account Name: ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Account No.: 359-3-00001-2 SWIFT code: SICOTHBK Cost of living: participants should have adequate funds to cover all expenses such as food, accommodation and other personal items which they will pay by themselves to the hotels, food vendors and others. They should have insurance of their properties and also health / life insurances. There is a bank branch in AIT campus. ATM machine accepts major debit and credit cards.
List of countries with visa exemption: http://www.mfa.go.th/web/2482.php?id=2490 On arrival visa are granted at the port of entry only to those who are from the countries listed at: http://www.mfa.go.th/web/2482.php?id=2491
should arrange visa from their own country applying to Royal Thai embassy or Consulate. If there is no Thai embassy / consulate in the country, they should go to another country nearby. Please check here to see them: http://www.thaiembassy.org. Also, participants need to keep in mind that it may take 3 days to arrange Thai visa. Those who are from the yellow fever declared countries (see list at http://www.mfa.go.th/web/2482.php?id=2494) need a certificate of vaccination) and they have to show to the health control section before heading to immigration counters:
'AIT'. The staff will give you a paper. Taxi may ask you to negotiate when you start. But tell the driver go by METER and via 'MOTORWAY'. Taxi fare to AIT should be around 300-400 Baht (or US$10-15). You will need to pay 30 (=US$1) as tollway fee twice and 50 Baht as service fee on top of the amount showed by the taxi meter. It should not take more than an hour. At AIT gate tell them you are going to 'AIT Center'. If you face problem, please show our telephone no. 087 803 116 (Ms. Lucia) or 081-7316934 (Ram) to the taxi driver.
Tell them you are for "Aqua-Training" at AARM Click here for: AIT Campus map and to find out how to go to AARM Hatchery where training is conducted.
Weather: Weather in Bangkok and around is always hot (up to 35 deg C). There is no winter, coldest temp is 20 deg C. Security: No major concern (believe me Thailand (except deep south) is one of the safest countries in the world!) Preparations: Casual dress, easy to work in the field and even in ponds, other items e.g. hand globes, shoes covering angle, hat/cap, sun glasses, sun-lotion and insect repellent will be useful. A laptop, CD, memory stick, camera and mobile phone will be useful. Local SIM can be purchased at the airport. |
You will learn how to produce over 5 million fry/day & grow them.
- Contact:
- Dr Ram C. Bhujel
Senior Scientist and Affiliated Faculty
Coordinator. Aqua-Internship and Training Program
Aquaculture & Aquatic Resources Management (AARM)
School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD)
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
PO Box 4, Klong Luang Pathumthani 12120, Thailand
- Email: bhujel@ait.ac.th or Coordinator@aarm-asialink.info or Skype account: Ram.Bhujel
Tel: 66 (02) 524 5222 or 66 (081) 734 6934
Training schedules:
March 5-17 => full
March 19-31 => full
April 23-May 5=> few seats left
June 18 - 30 => few seats left
March 5-17 => full
March 19-31 => full
April 23-May 5=> few seats left
June 18 - 30 => few seats left
Upcoming training:
July 2 - 8
July 2 - 8
Upcoming training:
May 7 - 12
Very limited seats
available! Please hurry up!
May 7 - 12
Very limited seats
available! Please hurry up!
Upcoming training:
Nov 19 - 24
Limited seats available!
Please hurry up!
Nov 19 - 24
Limited seats available!
Please hurry up!
