How to Farm Asian Clams? Detailed Explanation of Farming Methods and Technical Key Points

Asian clam meat is nutritious and simple to rear, and it can also serve as a bait species for pond aquaculture. In recent years, the Asian clam market has been in short supply, with prices continuously rising. Below, the editor will introduce how to farm Asian clams.

1. How to farm Asian clams?

The substrate of the farming pond should preferably be sandy soil, with the water depth maintained at about 1 m. Before stocking, the pond water should first be drained, then exposed to sunlight for 2-3 weeks before refilling with water. The size of the seed stock is 800-4000 individuals per kg, and 60-130 kg of Asian clam seed stock can be stocked per mu. Feeding is mainly with soybean powder, wheat bran or rice bran. After being raised for 7 months, each can reach about 5.4 g, equivalent to 50 times the original seed stock, and at this time they can be harvested.

2. Economic value of Asian clams

Asian clam farming is suitable both for release and propagation in large and medium-sized lake water surfaces and for feeding and fertilizing aquaculture in small water surfaces or ponds. Farming Asian clams has low cost, high yield, and easy harvesting, and they can be stocked and harvested in the same year, with significant economic benefits. Asian clam meat is delicious and nutritious. Besides being eaten fresh, it can also be processed into dried clams, canned clams, frozen clam meat, or pickled into salted clams. Not only are they loved by people domestically, but in Japan, South Korea, and some Southeast Asian countries, they are also generally loved by people.

For commercial Asian clams supplied for export, the shell length is generally 25-36 mm, shell height 22-33 mm, and shell width 16-28 mm. Individual weight is 4-7 g, with 160-220 individuals per kg.

In addition, Asian clams can also be used as farmland fertilizer. Applying crushed clam meat and crushed clam shells has an improving effect on acidic soil.

3. Medicinal value of Asian clams

In recent years, with the increase in Asian clam export volume, Asian clam prices have continuously risen. Japan and South Korea import tens of thousands of tons of fresh live Asian clams from China each year, to be used in sobering-up and liver-protecting medicinal meals. Asian clams can not only serve as medicinal material in traditional Chinese medicine, with effects such as stimulating appetite, promoting lactation, improving eyesight, promoting urination, removing damp toxins, treating liver disease, reducing fever in measles, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and sobering up, but they are also a natural bait for poultry, livestock, and fish. Crushed clam meat and clam shells mixed into compound feed, when fed to poultry and livestock, have the effect of promoting growth and reproduction, and can increase the egg production rate of poultry and the milk production rate of livestock. Asian clams can also serve as live bait for certain special aquatic products. In recent years, with the development of farming soft-shelled turtles, carp, yellow eels, and crabs, people have also begun to attach importance to Asian clam farming.

Overall, Asian clams grow relatively quickly, are not difficult to farm, and have good market prospects, can bring good economic benefits, and are a good farming project.