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Myanmar Teams Up with Singapore for Disease Resistant Prawns

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MYANMAR - The Myanmar fisheries department is to work with the Singaporean Gold Coin Company to breed seawater prawns (Vennami)that are more disease resistant.

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The Gold Coin Company will breed the baby prawns, providing related breeding aids such as medicine, food, and various techniques. The company will give the prawns to Fisheries Department as a product share, reports Eleven.

“The company will have to gain 60 per cent profit and the department will get the remaining 40 per cent,” said Tun Win, Deputy-Director General of Myanmar Fisheries Department.

At present, Myanmar has three prawn breeding zones in Yangon Region.