Half-Hearted Cooperation
Things have started moving again at the Dipasena shrimp farm. But there is real concern that this is nothing more than history repeating itself.
July 29, 2003
A GREY cloud seems to darken the face of Sunarto. Two months ago, this villager from Bumi Dipasena Jaya disseminated 17,000 baby shrimps. Usually from this amount, he would be able to harvest 200 kilograms of shrimps within four months. Unfortunately, this time around the shrimps came down with the deadly white spot disease. Like it or not, this means the shrimp have to be harvested immediately otherwise they would all die of the disease, he said
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