Rongfu Aquaculture (PINK:RNFU)

Rongfu Aquaculture, Inc. is engaged in commercial freshwater aquaculture in the PRC. Aquaculture is the cultivation of fish under controlled conditions (as contrasted with the harvesting of fish in the wild). The Company cultivates its fish in fresh water (not marine (salt water) or brackish environments), sells fish and fish fry (juvenile fish) and also acts as a dealer of freshwater fish (generating trading profits from the purchase of fish from third party farmers and the immediate re-sale of such fish to wholesalers and processors).

According to China Agriculture Magazine, the Company is currently the largest seller of tilapia fry in the PRC and the Company believes that it is also one of the three largest sellers of adult tilapia in the PRC.

Types of Farms:

• Man-made ponds dug to a depth of approximately 2 meters with a surface area of 10-20 mu. A pond can be dug in two days and is filled with fresh filtered water from local sources. Each pond is outfitted with one or more oxygen aeration machines which float on the surface and one or more feeding machines which provide food to the fish twice per day. The aeration machines provide oxygen to the fish and enable the natural removal of fish wastes so that the water does not become toxic for the fish. 
   
• Comprised of a single lake created by damming a river. Oxygen aeration equipment is not needed since the lakes have a much larger area than the ponds dug by the Company. The land on which the farms are located is leased by the Company from the village under leases for terms of 4 to 30 years.

In addition to its adult fish breeding farms, the Company operates a breeding farm in Wenchang, Hainan Province in which tilapia fry are produced from brood stock. (The warm climate in Hainan is more conducive to the breeding of tilapia fry than the climate in Guangdong Province.) The tilapia fry breeding farm in Wenchang covers an area of approximately 1,800 mu. The Company breeds snakehead and crucian carp fry at its facility in Nanhai.

Last updated April 7, 2010