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Unima

Unima is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Unima rather than just read about it. In short: Unima is a company specialized in the fishing and production of shrimps, with a focus on aquaculture farming. Unima is headquartered in Luxembourg, and operates in Madagascar.

Key takeaways

Unima belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Unima to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Unima from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Unima is a company specialized in the fishing and production of shrimps, with a focus on aquaculture farming. Unima is headquartered in Luxembourg, and operates in Madagascar. Amyne H. Ismail has been the president and CEO of Unima since 2014. The company operates several fishing vessels and processing plants in Madagascar and exports its products to international markets.

Background Unima was founded by Aziz Hassam Ismail in 1965. In 1973, he acquired the modest shrimp-fishing operations of the small company Les Pêcheries de Nossi-Bé. During the 1990s, Unima launched Aqualma, 1,800 acres of aquaculture basins, and developed domesticated specific pathogen-free (SPF) broodstock of black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon). In 1998, Amyne H. Ismail, son of Aziz Hassam Ismail, became CEO of Unima. Under his leadership, Unima turned into a fully-integrated shrimp production group, including a breeding and broodstock selection center, a larvae to post-larvae center, a software development company, a conditioning center (in France), and a high-quality fish-food factory (in La Réunion). In 2012, Unima started distribution in China. In 2012, Unima was hit by the white spot syndrome and overhauled its production process. In 2019, the Indian government authorized Aqualma to supply SPF black tiger broodstock to Indian producers to relaunch its domestic production of black tigers.

Quality, environmental and social commitments Unima's shrimp became the first non-European food product to be acknowledged under the French quality Label Rouge. They also obtained the Ikizukuri certification in Japan, and are certified organic by the European Union. Since 2006, Unima has been involved with UNICEF’s WASH program, and working with WWF in Madagascar to implement a Biodiversity Action Plan since 2007. The company has planted over 1 million mangrove trees and developed fields of cashew (Verama). Unima also applies the principles of the FAO code of conduct for Responsible Fishing. Besides, Unima pioneered carbon accounting, as one of the first companies in the world to apply the method developed by Jean-Marc Jancovici in the early 2000s. This project was supported by the French Development Agency and the Malagasy Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. In 2016, the company's aquaculture farm Aqualma in Mahajamba was the first in Africa to be awarded Aquaculture Stewardship Council certification.

See also Aquaculture in Madagascar Shrimp farming

References

External links Official website

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Unima

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Unima claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Unima before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Unima ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Unima

In research: Unima appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Unima in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Unima is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1965 establishments in Madagascar, Aquaculture, Companies of Madagascar, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Unima outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Unima in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Unima means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Unima out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Unima in simple terms?

Unima is a company specialized in the fishing and production of shrimps, with a focus on aquaculture farming. Unima is headquartered in Luxembourg, and operates in Madagascar.

Why does Unima matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Unima?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Unima.