snail farming

Snail farming, an alternative for entrepreneurs to restructure the livestock sector

almaconluz 5 Comments Entrepreneurship
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Snail farming has become an alternative for livestock farmers that offers them new business opportunities. The Centre of the Andalusian Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training (IFAPA) of Hinojosa del Duque (Cordova)is a referent in Spain in the training of these farmers. 180 snail farms have been created in Andalusia over the last […]

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Biology and entrepreneurship to make snail farming an economic alternative

almaconluz 4 Comments Sustainability
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Heligemas is a business emerging from the University of Seville. It’s an initiative by a group of biologists who have seen an economic alternative in Heliculture, or snail farming. Not surprisingly, Andalusia is one of the top snail consumers in the world. At the moment, they are focussing their efforts on the ‘chapa’ snail, native […]

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