Waste to wealth: A sustainable circular bioeconomy approach of chicken manure powder for increasing productivity of Lanchester’s freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium lanchesteri)

Buncha Tongmee Buncha Tongmee,Rameshprabu Ramaraj Rameshprabu Ramaraj,Niwooti Whangchai Niwooti Whangchai,Tipsukhon Pimpimol Tipsukhon Pimpimol,Nattakarn Mukdajaturaphak Nattakarn Mukdajaturaphak,Yuwalee Unpaprom Yuwalee Unpaprom

doi:10.54279/mijeec.v3i1.245089

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https://doi.org/10.54279/mijeec.v3i1.245089

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A biorefinery is ideal because it can combine many processes to produce multiple bio-products from organic solid waste. Moreover, in view of socially rising energy demands and biodiversity conservation, biorefinery contributed as a sustainable strategic tool for the emerging circular bio-economy. In this research objective was to study some techniques to increase the productivity of Lanchester’s freshwater prawn in earthen ponds. The experiment using a completely randomized design was conducted. In six Nattearthen ponds, different amounts of chicken manure were applied to produce different amounts of phytoplankton (green algae). The first pond was control, then, the 2nd to 6th ponds were applied with chicken manure in 30, 60, 90, 120 and 150 kg/rai/week, respectively. The prawns were fed twice daily with 5% of total body weight using 40% protein diet. The results of the study showed that feeding with different densities of phytoplankton (green algae) affected the productivity of Lanchester's freshwater prawn significantly. The highest productivity of Lanchester's freshwater prawn was 566.30 ±4.88 g from the pond applied with chicken manure of 120 kg/rai/week. The productivity of Lanchester’s freshwater prawn applied with 90, 30, 60, 150 and 0 kilograms/rai/week of chicken manure was 416.53 ± 9.89, 295.43 ± 5.46, 281.13 ± 4.63, 275.39±4.78 and 265.86 ±4.79 g, respectively. In conclusion, the effect of different densities of phytoplankton (green algae) increased the productivity of Lanchester's freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium lanchesteri).

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Prawn (Macrobrachium lanchesteri de Man) or commonly called Lanchester’s freshwater prawn, is a type of small-sized prawn that thrives in marshes and with prominent features that differ from the giant freshwater prawn or other types of prawn wherein its upper part has big 4-7 teeth and its lower part has 1-2 teeth (Wichiansan, 1980)
From the study on the effect of green water on the productivity of the freshwater prawn produced at ponds added with chicken manure at varying concentrations, it was shown that increasing the concentrations of the chicken manure gave corresponding increased prawn production
This conformed to the experiments done by the Department of Fisheries (1997), which showed that the productivity of freshwater prawns is higher in green water ponds than in clear water ponds

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Prawn (Macrobrachium lanchesteri de Man) or commonly called Lanchester’s freshwater prawn, is a type of small-sized prawn that thrives in marshes and with prominent features that differ from the giant freshwater prawn or other types of prawn wherein its upper part has big 4-7 teeth and its lower part has 1-2 teeth (Wichiansan, 1980) It thrives at the flowing water sources with depth not exceeding one meter and hides in the stones, in between water plants, in still water with an oxygen content of 4.5 – 5.8 milligram per liter, and turbid water than clear water, due to scarcity of food in the clear water. They usually eat decaying food found on top of the stones, according to Sriputinibondh and Chongyotha (1997), who found that the stomach of the prawns contained diatoms, Navicula and Diatoma as 53.5 %; algae, Phacus and Euglena as 19.1% and insects as 9.7% belonging to Chironomus Cladocera group, Moina genus

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