The area of peat land in Indonesia is around 20.6 million hectares. If you look at the distribution, most of them are found in Sumatra (around 35%), Kalimantan (around 30%), Papua (around 30%), and Sulawesi (around 3%). Kalimantan is an area with considerable potential and can play a role in increasing fisheries production in Indonesia considering that there are still many marginal lands that have not been utilized, such as peatlands and former mining areas. The aim of this activity is to apply seeding techniques to grow catfish, snakehead and climbing perch in extreme land with a low pH range.
Fish cultivation activities on peatlands are carried out by liming, fertilizing and adding certain probiotics. It is believed that this method will improve the welfare of fish farmers who are the spearhead of the national aquaculture industry.
The results of fish cultivation development activities on peatlands obtained catfish with an FCR of 1,3, Climbing Perch fish and Snakehead fish of 1,5 to 1,7. Apart from that, 150.000 catfish seeds were obtained, 188.000 Climbing Perch fish seeds and 3.000 potential Climbing Perch parent fish, and 53.000 catfish seeds. The fish products are distributed as aid to the community in fish farming villages in Kapuas Regency, in Pulang Pisau Regency, and in Palangka Raya City. Restocking of Climbing Perch fish totally 200.000 fish to conserve germplasm in the Sebangau River, Palangka Raya City are carried from 2022 - 2023. This will really help reduce poverty for the community and preserve germplasm.