ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the results of an economic evaluation of six of the farms in the City of Pekanbaru. It introduces integrated poultry-fish farming practices to individual farmers in Pekanbaru, a city of 40 million people in the Province of Riau, in an experiment funded by the International Foundation for Science in Sweden. Small integrated farms in Pekanbaru have fish ponds at the bottom of sloping farm land. Broiler-fish farmers usually employed a polyculture of common carp and tilapia or gouramy. Broilers were fed commercial chicken feed, but an estimated 20% of the chicken feed and almost all the poultry manure dropped into the water, with each chicken producing approximately 40 g of manure per day. The level of expenditures required to establish a poultry fish-farm depended on the condition of the land being farmed, and its relative ease of access to roads and markets.
