Tilapia hatchery traces its roots to rice farm

摘要

In the town of Calauan in Laguna, located some 80 kilometers from Manila, a husband-and-wife team received a suggestion to convert their rice farm into a tilapia hatchery.In the Philippines, where people eat rice with their meals as much as three times a day, demand for the grain will always be constant. Production yield though is sometimes at the mercy of nature. While the hatchery would pretty much be in the same boat,the financial returns would be better.Lucio and Cora Ilagan went for it and established the four-hectare L&C Tilapia Hatchery in 1998.