Xpand: Revolutionizing Shrimp Farming with Premium Feed

Extensive and successful local validation sees Skretting launch Xpand, the next generation of premium grower feed for shrimp.

Without taking any shortcuts or unnecessary risks, feeding Xpand enables farmers to reduce the associated costs and impacts of farming in exposed water locations by harvesting earlier at the same size; or alternatively, they can produce larger shrimp within their usual production schedules.

Proactive performance 

Throughout the past three decades, the Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre (ARC) has conducted pioneering research into the functionality of the different nutrients in aquaculture feeds. With the knowledge generated, Skretting ARC set about developing a new diet tailored to the shrimp sector’s unique needs and economic circumstances.

Xpand is the result of five years of R&D, incorporating the investigation and validation of many different ideas. Built upon a thorough understanding of the digestive physiology of shrimp, this development work focused on three pillars.

• Improved growth
• Improved nutrition
• Pond support

Supporting shrimp with the right nutrition and the right conditions enables improved performance and better control of production.

Advantages of Xpand

Feeding Xpand shortens the grow-out phase and provides more flexibility to either harvest earlier or harvest more at the same time.

• The new, innovative feed provides farmers with far greater levels of flexibility - larger shrimp, same time or earlier harvest, shorter time
• Enabling farmers to make decisions suited to unique operations and environmental factors
• Higher nutrient specification enable bigger shrimp size at harvest
• Grow-out phase can be reduced allowing early harvest
• Improved growth and survival rates
• Improved pond productivity