1 T/H Fish & Shrimp Feed Plant in Bangladesh
Fish & Shrimp Feed Plant (Turnkey Project)
Production of expanded fish feed and shrimp feed
Especificaciones del pienso:
2-8 mm fish feed and 0.5-2.5 mm shrimp feed
Materias primas:
Corn, soybean meal, rice bran, wheat bran, mustard oil cake, sesame cake, fish meal, meat and bone meal, vegetable oil, and vitamin and mineral premixes…
Capacidad de producción:
1 ton per hour
Tipo:
Fish & Shrimp Feed Plant
Bangladesh Aquaculture Market
As the world’s fifth-largest aquaculture country, Bangladesh has nearly 2 million hectares of water dedicated to aquaculture, primarily producing shrimp, crab, and fish. Around 60% of the country’s animal protein intake comes from fish, making aquaculture crucial to the country’s food security and nutritional. With rising populations and incomes, demand for tilapia, catfish, and shrimp has surged—driving commercial feed consumption.
Bangladesh’s feed market focuses mainly on fish feed. Tilapia feed has seen the fastest growth due to its fast growth rate and disease resistance. Common local favorites like catfish and carp maintain steady feed demand. While shrimp feed requires advanced technology, it remains highly profitable as a premium segment.
Despite strong prospects, Bangladesh’s aquaculture feed market faces numerous challenges.
The most significant issue is that feed raw materials (fishmeal, soybean meal, corn) are largely imported. The market also suffers from counterfeit and low-quality feeds. Furthermore, many small-scale aquaculture farmers lack scientific knowledge or funds to afford quality feed.
Bangladesh’s aquatic feed market has two future development directions.
It can focus on developing specialized extruded floating feeds tailored to different species and growth stages. This type of feed reduces waste and improves nutrient absorption. Functional feeds with added probiotics and immune enhancers are becoming a mainstream market trend, reducing disease risk for fish and shrimp. Furthermore, Local alternatives like insect protein/algae to replace imports, cutting costs while utilizing domestic resources.
Detalles del proyecto del cliente
This customer from southern Bangladesh has been working in the aquaculture feed industry for many years, holding management positions in several local feed companies. He deeply understands fish and shrimp feed formulations, market demand, and equipment performance.
As Bangladesh’s aquaculture industry continues to expand, he realized a shortage of high-quality feed locally. Thus, he decided to invest with several partners in building a fish and shrimp feed plant with an hourly production capacity of approximately one ton, aiming to supply quality extruded feed to nearby farmers.
Customers hope that their new aquatic feed processing factory can achieve the following goals:
- Producing both fish and shrimp feed on the same production line;
- Offering a wide range of pellet sizes, from 0.5mm to 8mm;
- Providing feed with good feed formation, strong water stability, and balanced nutrition;
- Having a stable and easy-to-operate production system, facilitating future expansion.
Bangladesh’s feed raw material supply system is relatively mature. And customers can easily obtain local common raw materials such as corn, soybean meal, rice bran, wheat bran, mustard oil cake, sesame cake, fish meal, meat and bone meal, and vegetable oil, and add vitamin and mineral premixes to supplement nutrition.
When designing the factory plan, RICHI considered the differences in protein levels and high oil content of these raw materials, and optimized the crushing and extrusion systems to make the density of feed pellets more controllable and the molding more stable.
Solución a medida
RICHI always puts the real needs of customers first. Before providing a feed production solution, we researched customers’ core pain points:
Do you have access to raw materials? What types are available?
Do you have planned production capacity estimates?
Should the production line support flexible switching switch between multiple recipes?
What is the desired timeline for installation and commissioning?
Based on this information, we design a more tailored solution for the customer, ensuring that fish & shrimp feed equipment configuration and process design are fully aligned with customers’ specific needs, helping them resolve operational challenges.
The final fish & shrimp feed plant primarily includes the following parts:
Raw Materials Processing
Through screening and magnetic separation, remove corn cobs from corn, lumpy/hardened shells from soybean meal, and small bone fragments from fishmeal. Discard moldy particles to prevent equipment damage or feed safety risks.
Next, further group materials by hardness/density differences, with hard and light materials separately to avoid mixed feeds that could lead to uneven pellet size.
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Sistema de trituración
The classified raw materials are put into the ultrafine grinder in batches, where they are precisely ground into a uniformly sized fine powder.
Because each type of raw material is crushed independently, it can avoid cross-contamination and lay a foundation for the uniform fusion of nutrients in the mixing process.
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Sistema de mezcla
According to the preset feed formula ratio, ground basic raw materials are put into the mixing equipment, and then functional additives such as vitamins, minerals, and probiotics are added.
The mechanical stirring of the feed mixer is used to achieve full fusion of the materials.
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Sistema de extrusión
Because the customers wanted to produce extruded feed, and for cost considerations, we equipped with a twin screw extruder here, which can process both fish and shrimp feed.
When customers want to change the feed pellet size, they simply replace the ring die.
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Sistema de secado
Feed pellets just out of the extruder contain high moisture content. They are evenly dried by the drying system, which can make the pellets have appropriate moisture content while maintaining the nutrients, avoiding caking and affecting the subsequent attachment of additives.
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Sistema de pulverización
The spraying system is typically started after the drying process, mainly to deposit functional substances onto the surface of dried feed pellets.
High-pressure atomizing nozzles evenly spray oils, flavorings, enzymes, and probiotics onto the pellet surface. And combined with a drum stirring function, the sprayed substances are fully contacted with the pellets and uniformly attached.
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Sistema de secado
It processes dry, high-temperature feed pellets after spraying.
By circulating cold air, the pellet temperature is quickly lowered to near room temperature. This prevents hot pellets from entering the packaging process, potentially causing thermal deformation of the packaging material and seal failure.
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Sistema de envasado
The terminal is equipped with a fully automatic packaging machine. It can automatically complete the weighing, filling and sealing of finished fish/shrimp feed particles, and simultaneously labels the bags with the production date, specifications, and shelf life.
Once packaged, customers can directly arrange to load the car for sale or store it in the warehouse.
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Bangladesh Fish & Shrimp Feed Plant Configuration
For the 1 ton/hour fish and shrimp feed plant construction project in Bangladesh, all equipment on this feed production line was independently developed and manufactured by RICHI Machinery. We offer quality guarantees and lifetime after-sales service.
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Raw Materials Processing
cylindrical primary cleaner
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Sistema de trituración
Molino ultrafino
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Sistema de mezcla
Mezcladora de paletas de doble eje
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Sistema de extrusión
twin screw extruder
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Sistema de secado
Secador de cinta de malla
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Sistema de pulverización
Pulverizador de vacío
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Sistema de refrigeración
Enfriador de contracorriente
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Sistema de envasado
fully automatic packaging machine
Complete Fish & Shrimp Feed Plant Delivery Process
Producción mecánica
After the customer confirmed the plan and signed the contract, our factory immediately began production. All feed equipment used in this 1-ton/hour fish & shrimp feed plant is self-manufactured by RICHI, with some key components custom-made based on the customer’s raw material type and process needs.
Durante la producción, nuestros ingenieros supervisan rigurosamente cada paso —desde la selección de los materiales hasta el montaje y la puesta en marcha— siguiendo unas normas de calidad unificadas para garantizar un rendimiento fiable y un funcionamiento estable.
Al mismo tiempo, para que los clientes estén más al tanto de los avances, tomamos regularmente fotos y grabamos vídeos del proceso de fabricación de los equipos, en los que se muestran los equipos clave y los productos semiacabados. De este modo, los clientes pueden ver claramente todo el proceso de montaje paso a paso de toda la línea de producción, aunque no se encuentren en las instalaciones.
Entrega del material
Once all fish & shrimp feed production equipment is fully manufactured and the necessary accessories for the fish & shrimp feed production line are prepared, we will arrange shipment according to the delivery schedule confirmed with you.
Como fabricante con una larga trayectoria en el sector de los equipos para piensos, contamos con un sistema de distribución global bien consolidado. Nuestros equipos de producción de piensos se han exportado con éxito a más de 140 países y regiones.
Whether your project is located in Bangladesh or elsewhere, we can ensure the safe and timely delivery of the equipment to the project site through standardized logistics solutions and end-to-end tracking services.
Instalación, puesta en marcha y formación
After the equipment arrives at the customer’s project site, we offer flexible installation support options: You can install it yourself or have our engineers assist on-site.
For this project, the customers chose self-installation. To ensure a smooth installation, we provided detailed installation drawings in advance and provided online guidance. If any problems arise during installation, our technical team will timely provide solutions to get the line running smoothly.
After the feed production line is installed and commissioned, we provide customers with training, either online or on-site. This training covers equipment operation, routine maintenance, and production process management, ensuring safe and skilled use of the entire feed production line.
Customer Evaluation and Project Operation Status
Six months after the fish and shrimp feed mill began operating, our after-sales team received a review from our Bangladeshi customer about the fish & shrimp feed plant we designed for them:
“This 1-ton-per-hour fish and shrimp feed production line is our first ever self-invested feed factory. Yeah, we’ve worked in the aquatic feed industry before, but building an entire factory from scratch? That’s a first for us.
RICHI team was super thorough right from the planning stage—they helped us go through all the details, like raw materials, production volume, and the types of feed we need to make. The whole production line they set up is really well-suited for us.
Once the equipment arrived, we organized the installation ourselves. But the RICHI engineers were there the whole time with online technical guidance and commissioning support. The whole process went really smoothly. Now the factory’s running steadily—we hit a good production volume every day, and the feed quality has also won over the fish farmers.”
Types of Feed Suitable for Production In Bangladesh
（1）Aquatic Feed
Bangladesh has rivers everywhere and ponds all over, creating perfect conditions for farming tilapia, catfish, shrimp, and other aquatic products.
Pienso para peces
Tilapia, catfish and carp (expanded floating feed)
Pienso para gambas
Penaeus monodon/Penaeus vannamei (pellet size 0.8-2mm)
（2）Poultry Feed
Poultry products are a major source of animal protein in Bangladesh, and the market is stable and the demand continues to grow. Feed production needs to design reasonable formula according to different poultry varieties and growth stages.
Broiler Feed
Layer Feed
Duck Feed
Duck farming is popular in some parts of Bangladesh, especially in areas close to rivers, lakes and other waters. Ducks can not only provide duck meat and eggs, but also have certain economic value.
（3）Ruminant Feed
Bangladesh is rich in agricultural by-products, such as rice straw, wheat bran and sugarcane tips, which are ready-made roughage resources.
Cattle Feed
Sheep Feed
（4）Specialty Animal Feed
Pet Feed
Tip: At present, the penetration rate of family pets in urban areas of Bangladesh is still low, so it is necessary to avoid over-reliance on the high-end pet feed market.
Quail/Pigeon Feed
Designed for quails and pigeons raised domestically or commercially.
Nuestros proyectos en otros países
2.5 Tons/Hour Fish Feed Production Line In Kyrgyzstan
This project successfully overcame the specific requirements of feed extrusion technology in high-altitude regions, providing a cost-effective, localized feed solution for salmon and trout farming. It can make good use of local common corn and soybean meal, as well as local protein ingredients like flaxseed meal. By precisely controlling conditioning temperature and pelleting parameters, it produces feed pellets for sinking fish such as grass carp and rainbow trout.
3-5 tons/hour fish feed factory in Kazakhstan
Designed by RICHI, this 3–5 tons/hour fish feed production line features a twin-screw extruder and multiple grading screens. The biggest highlight is that the production capacity can be flexibly switched according to the market demand—running at full capacity of 5 tons/hour during peak season and dropping to 3 tons/hour during off-season. This not only saves energy but also reduces costs. This line can produce feed for both coldwater and freshwater fish.
Planta de procesamiento de pienso para peces de 1-2 toneladas/hora en Azerbaiyán
Adaptada a las necesidades de la acuicultura en la costa del mar Caspio, esta línea de producción permite alternar fácilmente entre pienso para esturiones y pienso convencional para peces. Teniendo en cuenta el elevado contenido de arena de algunas materias primas de Azerbaiyán, también hemos incorporado a la línea un dispositivo de eliminación de impurezas, lo que reduce considerablemente el desgaste y mejora la durabilidad de la maquinaria.
Garantía RICHI
En el ámbito de los equipos de peletización de piensos acuáticos y de las líneas completas de producción de piensos acuáticos, aprovechamos la amplia experiencia de nuestro equipo para comprender con precisión sus necesidades de ingeniería de procesos, resolver en profundidad los retos prácticos y diseñar soluciones fiables a medida que cumplan con los más altos estándares internacionales.
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