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Diversity is secret behind Somerset farm’s success
When one of the world’s leading aquaponics experts describes your farm as ‘the best system in the UK by a mile’ your laurels. But Antonio Paladino and Amanda Heron are already planning their next move in an industry that has defeated many other entrepreneurs.
Dr Wilson Lennard said Paladino and Heron’s business is a success story because they diversi
countries’ aquaponics enterprises and don’t want history to repeat itself.
‘We are an emerging industry and we want to as a commercial site that produces food.
Wisconsin University’s extension programme another.
They received ‘a very small amount’ from the Paladino.
He based his system on the pilot project in
realised that commercial failure was mostly due to
integrated aquaponics farm in Europe.
‘This is our third year and it is going well - we’ve been expanding every year to the extent that demand is high and we’re trying to match it with supply.’
Bioaqua rears trout and Paladino says they put
plant side but if that goes wrong they have nothing
Although they can’t compete with the big growth.
‘Put it this way: this system can be replicated