Post by Charles Darwin University

Vietnam is the world's largest producers of striped catfish - but climate change and intensification of farming practices are having severe impacts on the crop. To help safeguard the country's aquaculture industry, a new CDU-led project is using AI to detect disease outbreaks in striped catfish ponds in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. The project will develop a real-time monitoring system able to identify early warning signs of disease risk. “Farmers will be able to take preventive management actions before outbreaks occur. This has the potential to reduce mortality, improve productivity, and decrease reliance on antimicrobial treatments," project lead and CDU Research Institute for Northern Agriculture Professor of Tropical Aquaculture Sunil Kadri said. Read more here: http://go.cdu.edu.au/frea The project is in collaboration with Can Tho University and funded through the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Aus4Innovation program, which is co-funded and managed by CSIRO and delivered in partnership with the Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam. #YouMakeCDU #research #aquaculture Pictures: Provided by Sunil Kadri