Why I Am Into Fish Farming-Physiologist

A physiologist, Mr.
Charles  Ben-Osila  said he got into fish  farming because he was unable to secure employment  nearly four years after graduating.
Ben-Osila who spoke  to The Tide yesterday at his farm  site in Ahoada said after  working briefly  with ZB, an oil  servicing company as a contract staff, he was recently laid off.
According to the University of Port Harcourt graduate physiologist, he was able to save some money from the meager salary he received from the company.
He said after he was laid off, he went about looking for employment elsewhere to no avail.
He explained that in order not to expend his savings in looking for non-existing jobs, he decided to invest same on fish farming.
As a trained physiologist, he said dealing with the life  fishless pose no big challenge  for him even as he said the enterprise was capital intensive.
He is optimism  to make his first major harvest  in December 2014 giving all plans and circulation right, adding that “when x harvest late in December  I will be able to determine how well I am doing,” he said.
On measures  needed in  checking unemployment  in the country, Ben-Osila urged the federal government’s transformation agenda on the agricultural sector to be more pro-active.
He also recommended adequate funding of agricultural activities through  the budget to  boost business-oriented ventures rather than a mere vocation even as he adviced unemployed graduates in the  country  to venture into agriculture.