Aquaculture: Promotion Agency Publishes Handbooks

The Minister of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries, Dr Taiga, has made public handbooks on fish farming. The technical and economic guides produced by the Aquaculture Entrepreneurship Promotion Project coordination unit were presented to the public in Yaounde on November 15. The Minister said the production of the guide which will eventually scale up fish production is the fruit of cooperation between the government and development partners such as the World Bank’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), the UN University and collaboration with the Ministry of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Handicraft and Social Economy.

The handbooks provide steps and procedures for drawing up business plans for small scale aquaculture businesses, production of feed and farming different fish species like tilapia and mudfish on different platforms. They were presented and handed out to some stakeholders in Cameroon’s aquaculture sector.

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