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The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) encourages the application of the Minapadi system or fish pond cultivation in the middle of paddy fields, in order to maintain the supply of freshwater fish in the archipelago during the COVID-19 pandemic.KKP Aquaculture Director-General, Slamet Soebjakto, in a press release in Jakarta on Sunday, said that Minapadi is an aquaculture innovation model that can provide multiple benefits, the Minapadi system can be one of the right solutions to be implemented, especially amid the economic downturn due to the pandemic.Slamet Soebjakto said that various advantages of the Minapadi fish culture system such as being able to produce organic rice with an increase in rice yield of 2-3 tons and additional income from fish at least 1 ton of fish per hectare make this system as one of the right models to improve the economic level the farmer.Besides that, another advantage is that when the rice production process does not use pesticides and is minimal in the use of fertilizers so that the total farmers can get an additional income of up to 40 percent. Thus, through minapadi, people not only get rice but also get fish as protein intake//Ant