Better Farming Series 33 - Farming Snails 1: Reaming about Snails; Building a Pen; Food and Shelter Plants (FAO, 1986, 57 p.): Learning about snails: Where can you get snails?

Better Farming Series 33 - Farming Snails 1: Reaming about Snails; Building a Pen; Food and Shelter Plants (FAO, 1986, 57 p.)

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Introduction

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What do you need to start?

Learning about snails

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What kind of snails can you farm?

Where can you get snails?

Where can you farm snails?

The soil and the water in the soil

Plants for food and plants for shelter

Dew and rain

Land that is wet

Wind

Where do you keep snails when you farm them?

How many snails will you need when you first begin?

How much snail meat can you expect to get?

Now you must decide

How to begin

Choose a place on your land to put your snail farm

Clean the site and prepare the ground

Building a pen

Plant the food and shelter plants

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When are the plants big enough for food and for shelter?

28. When you are ready to get snails, perhaps you can get them by gathering wild snails that live near you.

Gathering wild snails

29. Perhaps you can buy them from people who gather wild snails to sell to others.

Buying from one who gathers wild snails

30. You may even be able to buy them from another snail farmer.

Buying from another snail farmer

Note
Never term snails that you buy at the market. Snails at the market may have been washed, kept too cold or hurt and they may die soon.