snail farming commonly known as Heliciculture

1. Snail farming
(Heliciculture)

2. Snail
• A small creature with a soft, wet body and a
round shell, that moves very slowly and often eats
garden plants.
• Most snails live from 2 to 5 years.
• Speed of snails is around 0.5-0.8 inches per
second.
• Calcium carbonate is the main component of the
snail shells.

3. • Small not weak, can lift up to 10 times of their
body weight.
• Most snail species have a ribbon like tongue that
contains thousands of microscopic teeth.
• There may be as many 150000 species of
gastropods, live in almost all habitats, from
deep ocean trenches to deserts.

4. Why Snail farming?
• Profit margin is very high.
• Demand for snails both in domestic and export
market is very high.
• Less capital investment.
• Risk involved in snail farming is less as it is very
rare to get affected by diseases.
• Snail slime has been proved to be of great
importance in pharmacy and cosmetic industries.

5. How?
• Snail farming is about gathering the right resources like
humidity and temperature controls.
• Equipment like outdoor pens or plastic tunnels for
breeding.
• Climate control equipment like sprinklers is important to
keep the temperature range from 16-24 degree.
• Soil should be partly sand and clay plus additive
limestone.

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