Industrial Visit At The Sea Food Processing Factory
Last Saturday on the 31st of December few of the batch mates made a tour to the factory of my father. It was full of fun and excitement and for me too was a great experience. All got a through understanding of the operations process which takes place in the factory. Most of them were amazed to see the effort put into it for processing and the processes used in order to market the products in the European markets. It is much more than just sending sea food to a foreign country in a 
container. All got the rare opportunity of observing the almost all the stages of the entire operations process starting from the purchasing of the materials from the suppliers, unloading, weighing and categorising depending on the weight, cleaning, putting, arranging, freezing, loading for the shipment.
Later in the day all went to the farm of us which is located some kilometres down to Puttlam road and got an insight about the aqua cultu
ring. I think all were amazed to see how technical it is and how hard it would be to manage a farm which spans across many acres with utmost care whilst ensuring the quality of an array of measurements needed to the development of healthy prawns.
They got one of the rarest opportunities one would get, which is to get inside a hatchery where the breeding takes place and to see how it all happens. Even for me one of the great experiences was to see a mother prawn weighing 320g which had produced more than 45,000 babies. We visited the ponds where the prawn develops into the mature stage and all got a briefing from the Chief Quality Supervisor about the entire process.
At the end the back at the factory all had a friendly discussion as to how the marketing aspect happen for the exported sea food from Sri Lanka and the developments in the international sea food markets.
At the end of the day I feel very happy about the outing and I think all who visited would have also felt the same apart from the vast amount experience all gained during the visit.
posted by Indiwary at 9:03 PM
15 Comments:
True. It was one great experience i got. Specially this was the first time i have been to a prawn farm and the visit to the hatchery was a superb experience. Also the lunch was very tasty. Thanks for the marvellous experience indiwary
Cool! An interesting area to invest. Too bad that we missed the visit. But I hope that we will also have a chance of visiting the farm. Perhaps after the August. Excellent stuff!!!!
good stuff Indiwary...hey, u better take me for a factory visit too ok!!!!!!! I luv seafood..esp ur cuttlefish and prawns...interesting site...keep it up sweetie..:)
you guys may have got Fantastic and good experience by visiting this. it is momentum if all the guys can go there and visit this farm.
how much where you (the farm and the business) effected after the tsunami? but by the looks of it doesnt seem to have set back your'll that much.
This is with reference to the question raised by an anonymous visitor. Our farm and processing factory is located at Chilaw, but not very closer to the coastal belt. Also this area not much affected by tsunami. Currently the processing happens mainly by the sea catch from the North & East area. The impact of the tsunami in those areas was minimal. Currently the farm is functioning at the low density level. But the processing factory is fully operated. Thank you and hope you are satisfied with the answer.
The experience i got for the outing was marvellous. Thanks to lalin who said we should visit the farm with an industry to see and we all of us should learn from Indiwary's father the way he is managing the farm and the industry during the bad time and good period. During the white spot disease lot of people closed their factories but uncle had the couarge to run the factory. That's how business takes place and he is one of the best entrupruners i ahve seen in Sri Lanka. A business man will always have is eyes open. That's the way he goes. We can learn lot from indiwary's father his experience and his knowledge.
hi........ can't u take us to ur factory and make us a nice sea food dishes....
y sepcially... j? ........ hahah... Ur blog is very interesting... can u post some articles mentioning how to make more sea food dishes...
My frnds waj, jay, shana, shanika & niki don't knw to cook so they can learn smething frm that....
I suggest you adding step-by-step information about the procedure of a product--starting from the birth and all the way up to the finished-product. Then only readers would know how much effort goes into these products in order to make them the best. I think it’s important because the products that come out with quality inspections have a better chance of surviving than the products with no inspections at all.
Hey!! Y not Mr. Krish. I will take in to consideration your suggestion and the request. I’ll try co come up with solutions in near future. By the way Thanks for the comment. Good luck with your work. All the best.
Dear Nalin a.
There is a good sense on the point you made. My objective on creating this site is mainly to get aware & attract foreign buyers on Sea Food Exports Industry in Sri Lanka, update current status and stressing on strengths and opportunities on this industry where we can grow to archive a strong supply network to match the world demand. Apart from that I wish to bring international sea food buyers to our country. So I thought they might not be interested on all the steps from mother prawns in the hatchery, post lava the baby shrimp, then the growth levels of the ‘Tiger Prawns’ inside the pond and the harvesting stages, processing stages inside the factory, packaging, freezing methods then to refer containers to the shipment. But after raising the question I really feel the necessity on the point and within this couple of days I’ll write and publish an article on this. Thank you very much. All the best with your work.
This is a good work by Indi and her friends. Hope they had fun and knowledge from this project.Keep up the good work....
Well, at first I thought this is an informative project. That’s why I suggested adding those materials. But if this is for a catch, then you don’t wanna give-away yall secrets.
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This is great work but i just want to know about companies in Sir-Lanke that exports flower shrimps , Can anyone help me please , & this is my contact Shimaamohamed_86@hotmail.com
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