Snail Farming

What is Snail?

Snail is in class of Gastropoda (in mollusca). Its body is soft but covered with gnarled (twisted) shell. Generally snail means terrestrial snail, marine and fresh water snail. It is seen in desert, rivers, abiding, pond, lake, ocean and coastal areas. Although most people are familiar with terrestrial snails but actually they are negligible in number. Marine snails are large in varieties and numbers. Freshwater snails as well as saline water snails are also large in number. Most of the snails are herbivorous but some marine snails eat plants and meat.

Why do we need Snail cultivation?

Snail is used as food of many kinds of fish, poultry and duck. It reduces food cost and makes yields fruitful. So make the business profitable. We can use fish food and poultry food but that is costly and makes the business less profitable. The food that we buy from the market is mixed with dangerous chemicals that are harmful for the fish, poultry and duck health. The food business men mix that chemical for storing. But if we make those foods in our houses then food cost will become less. And farm will be healthful, more profitable and environment friendly.

How can we cultivate it?

For every acre of land we have to use mixer of 100 kg cow-dung, 100 kg oil-cake, 25 kg urea with sufficient water. The mixer is divided in to 4 parts and has to use every 3 days intervals. When the water of the pond is dark green color then we have to collect 25 kg snails from the canals, ditches or ponds and scatter them around the pond. Within 10 – 15 days snail increases heavily. Next within 35 – 40 days snail will become fully matured. That means we can produce 16650 kg of snail from 1 acre of land within 40 – 45 days. We have to mix 25 kg dung, 25 kg cake 10 kg urea as compost manure and scatter it per acre of land area for every 3 days. We can collect snail after 45 days with net. Then mix it with rice powder and break them with Pilet machine. Then they are drying in the sun and make them fine-powder with oil-cake machine. Then this can use as fish food.