Thatta, Sindh — Pakistan

From pond to plate, we're building Pakistan's tilapia supply chain.

LarGro runs a monosex tilapia hatchery, a working IPRS grow-out system, and a farmer-training programme — teaching the full journey from fry to harvest, right where it happens.

The tilapia life cycle at LarGro

From hatchery to harvest, in six stages

01

Broodstock

Selected parent tilapia kept in controlled ponds

02

Hatching

Monosex fry produced at our own hatchery

03

Nursery

Fry raised to fingerling size under close watch

04

Grow-out

Ponds and IPRS raceways for main growth phase

05

Harvest

Fish graded and harvested at market weight

06

Market

Fresh fillets to Karachi Fish Market and beyond

Where we stand today

Numbers from the farm floor

100M
Fry capacity at our hatchery

First milestone: 30–40 million fry within 3–4 years.

3–4k kg
Per acre, without aeration

Working toward 7,000–8,000 kg/acre with aeration.

20–25t
From 1.25 acres via IPRS

Our In-Pond Raceway System, running since 2020.

Farmer training

We teach what we learned the hard way.

Most local farmers still get 300–500 kg per acre using traditional methods. Our own ponds now produce 3,000–4,000 kg per acre. We built a 40–50 person training room on the farm to close that gap — and we open our doors to university students learning aquaculture in practice, not just theory.

Explore the training programme
A note from the journey

"We didn't start with experts. We started by visiting nearby farms, watching, and learning from YouTube — until a 2016 seminar on tilapia changed the direction of everything we did next."

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