Agro Firm Trains 620 Aquaculture Farmers

An agro firm, Aller Aqua Nigeria Ltd., says it has trained 620 fish farmers so far this year, in its ongoing “Free Training’’ to further drive the Federal Government’s plan to strengthen aquaculture.
Regional Sales Manager of the firm, Mr Foluso Dada, told newsmen yesterday in Lagos that the figure included trainings in Asaba, Warri, Benin and Port Harcourt.
He said the company, a subsidiary of Aller Aqua Group, was conducting the training to ensure that when strengthened, aquaculture would be a major contributor to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
According to him, the outcome of the training since it commenced in 2016, propelled the firm to extend its activities to the South-West cities like Lagos and Ibadan.
“The training is going to be in three parts, to bridge the gap in the aquaculture sub-sector deficit in optimum profitability.
“The first part of the training will be for those who own fish farms on managing practices, to build farmers’ capacity and opportunities for making profits.
“The second phase, which is a technical part, will be on Economics of Feeding and Feeds Efficiency for farm owners and managers.
“The third is on Tilapia production focusing on feasibility studies of how to set up tilapia farms and how to make profits,’’ Dada said.
He noted the training in Lagos State would begin in Ikorodu yesterday, while today there would be for another batch of farmers in Agege and on Thursday in Ibadan.
Our source reports that the training was free for intending and fish farm owners; meanwhile, the Abuja and Kaduna segment would hold next week.
Aller Aqua is a fish feed producing firm based in Germany.