In what may be a first, the highest production cost for fish farmers is not electric power supply but fish feed, which accounts for up to 70% of the total cost of farmed fish production in Nigeria.
“I would love to buy land near my village. Then, I can create jobs for young people…” […]
Farming is serious business. by teaming up with MARKETS II to train fish farmers using the Nigerian Agriculture Enterprise Curriculum (NAEC), PIND helps instill record keeping skills that ensures these farmer’s farming business are good viable businesses capable of sustaining their livelihood.
This video features farmers from the Delta State-based United Ufuoma Fish Farmers Association (UUFFA), talks about the opportunities in the aquaculture sector, and how agriculture can help Niger Delta move beyond oil.
This study examines The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta’s (PIND’s) aquaculture pilot project at the Ufuoma Fish Farm in Warri, to determine how the project currently contributes to social stabilization, ways in which it might increase stabilization, and potential opportunities for enhancing stabilization beyond the aquaculture program. To answer these questions, Mercy…
The first value chain study focused on Aquaculture in the Niger Delta – one of the most important growth sectors in the region. The study highlighted the very large growing and unmet demand for fish in the country and the clear opportunities for aquaculture to respond to that demand. Constraints affecting the aquaculture value chain…