The Government of Hungary, assisted by the United Nations Development Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, have been engaged in the Development of Intensive Freshwater Fishculture Project (HUN/79/001), whose main purpose has been to develop the research, extension and training capabilities on intensive fresh-water fish culture in the National Fishculture Research Institute, Szarvas, and to enable the Institute to play a major role in the application of the results of research in the commercial fish farms of the country.
As part of the project operations, FAO assigned Mr J. Halver as Consultant (Fish Nutrition) from 6 September to 5 November 1981 with the following terms of reference:
to review on-going research work on fish nutrition and to assist the local team to formulate research programmes for 1982–1985;
to formulate commercial diets for Silurus glanis based on revised results of local experiments with slaughterhouse wastes;
to improve programmes of computer optimization of fish feeds produced in the local feed mill;
to introduce improved methods of starter feed manufacturing.
