JUST before evening, the fish pond came alive as hundreds of freshwater catfish (Clarias batrachus) jostled for fishmeal strewn by Rudi Suwandi into the water. One pail of fishmeal was gone in a minute. The temperature at 30 degrees Celsius didn’t deter the 40-year-old to go from one pond to another to feed his catfish.

It was a scene not from a village at Parung in Bogor, known as a catfish-breeding center in West Java. No expanses of greener