Farming snails 2: Choosing snails; Care and harvesting; Further improvement: Preface

Farming snails 2: Choosing snails; Care and harvesting; Further improvement
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Preface

The snails

Choosing your snails

Putting your snails in the pen

When to take out the fully grown snails

Taking care of your snails

Wet the food and shelter plants and moisten the ground

Tend the food and shelter plants

Take away the weeds and creeping grass

Feeding your snails other kinds of food

Building the second pen

When to build the second pen and how to build it

Putting snails in your second pen

Harvesting your snails

When to harvest your snails

How to harvest your snails

What to do with the snails you harvest

Preparing snails for cooking

Further improvement

Building the third pen

Building a bigger pen

Taking better care of your snails

Preface

The first twenty- six volumes in FAO's Better Farming Series were based on the Cours d'apprentissage agricole prepared in Côte d'Ivoire by the Institut africain de développement économique et social for use by extension workers. Later volumes, beginning with No. 27, have been prepared by FAO for use in agricultural development at the farm and family level. The approach has deliberately been a general one, the intention being to constitute basic prototype outlines to be modified or expanded in each area according to local conditions of agriculture.

Many of the booklets deal with specific crops and techniques, while others are intended to give the farmer more general information which can help him to understand why he does what he does, so that he will be able to do it better. Booklets No. 33 and 34 were added to the series owing to a growing interest in small- scale snail farming for food and profit in many countries where FAO's Better Farming Series is widely used.

Adaptations of the series, or of individual volumes in it, have been published in Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Creole, Hindi, Igala, Indonesian, Kiswahili, Malagasy, SiSwati, Thai and Turkish.

Requests for permission to issue this manual in other languages and to adapt it according to local climatic and ecological conditions are welcomed. They should be addressed to the Director, Publications Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Via delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy.