Chi Farms trains 1000 fish farmers

Chi Farms Limited has concluded the training and certification of a pilot group of smallholder fish farmers. A group of 22 women was trained in ‘Best Practices in Professional Fish Farming’ at one of Chi Farm’s catfish hatchery sites in Sagamu, Ogun State. The Aquaculture Client Focus Team of Chi Farms trained the women in […]

Chi Farms Limited has concluded the training and certification of a pilot group of smallholder fish farmers.

A group of 22 women was trained in ‘Best Practices in Professional Fish Farming’ at one of Chi Farm’s catfish hatchery sites in Sagamu, Ogun State.

The Aquaculture Client Focus Team of Chi Farms trained the women in areas such as pond preparation, water management, record keeping and fish farming as a business.

Chi Farms also signed partnership agreements with all the fish farmers to assure supply of high quality catfish juveniles, quality fish feed, and continuous technical support.

Furthermore, the pilot group will cooperate with the agriculture team of Diamond Bank Plc. that provides working capital finance for the farmers.

The pilot group are the first 22 farmers out of 500 farmers in southern Nigeria and another 500 farmers in northern Nigeria which Chi Farms plans to partner with under a USAID-supported technical assistance program aimed at increasing local food production.

Representative of Chi Farms, Johannes Flosbach said there were many ponds not being used because of lack of capital or professional knowledge to manage catfish farming in a profitable matter.

Executive Director, Chi Farms Ltd, Martin Middernacht disclosed that Chi Farms would also buy back table size catfish from associated farmers and make it available in major markets.