A small-scale land-based shrimp farming project in Kuwait, Middle East, ishoping to make a big splash in the country's shrimp market, aiming to build upa shrimp cluster in the eastern Arabian country.

A brainchild of entrepreneur Tariq Altararwa, the land-based farm is lookingto produce around 80 metric tons of vannamei annually -- and "more than10" similar farms could follow suit if successful.

Construction of the first farm -- built up in a greenhouse with raceways --is slated to start this August, and the site will include a hatchery, a nurseryand grow-out tanks, Altararwa told IntraFish.

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