Abstract
Millions of people lost their jobs due to COVID-19 creating critical problems of food and nutrition insecurity. It has added 130 million in addition to 821 million hungry people [1]. Over 690 million people are malnourished. Fish is the best medicine of malnutrition and the most efficient food production system; tilapia is the most suitable one. It became the most widely farmed species due to availability of inputs, equipment, technologies and human resources. To solve the shortages of seed, AIT developed a technique capable of producing millions of mono-sex seed. It is spreading from Fiji through Asia, Africa to Brazil. Tilapia is grown in low input ponds to highly intensified cages and tank systems. China produces over 1.5 million ton annually, followed by Indonesia and Egypt. Globally about 7 million mt of Nile tilapia along with its hybrids, is produced annually which is the highest amongst the species. Tilapia is available in the street as well as supermarkets in Asia and frozen fillets are popular in USA and Europe. It has great scope to create millions of jobs and generate income in addition to ensuring food and nutrition security if it could be aggressively promoted worldwide.
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