Adelanwa Bamgboye
19 March 2008
Abuja — The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Rome has thrown its weight behind shrimps farming in Nigeria.
This, according to FAO, would enable unemployed youths who take to Okada riding and other tedious manual labour to avail themselves the opportunity of the new technique for shrimps farming being taught by the FAO.
FAO Aquatic Resource Manager, Jim Miller and one of the fisheries experts who gathered at a workshop in Lagos to draw regulations to guide investors on shrimps farming in Nigeria said that the shrimps farming worth $200 million investment will kick start with about 20 farmers cutting across the country by June.
The aim of the workshop was to get a working paper that can allow the implementation of an environmentally friendly and sustainable shrimp farming industry in Nigeria. The Three-Day workshop on Shrimp Aquaculture Programme in Nigeria was organized by the Sulalanka Nigeria Ltd. in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, and Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Rome, to produce a National Guideline for Shrimp Farming Development in the country
The workshop theme is "shrimp aquaculture Program in Nigeria: Inland farming of Marine Black Tiger shrimp." Mr. Upali Karunaratna, CEO, Sulalanka Nig Ltd said the major issue is to form guidelines and regulations to monitor the Industry "No matter what knowledge you have with limits of financial and management resources to the sky high, if no regulations are stipulated and made mandatory, its inevitable that the industry will perish sooner than later," he said
According to him, the aim of having fisheries expert, NGOs, Farmers across the globe to attend the workshop was to identify the appropriate technology to adopt that would be suitable, environmental friendly and sustainability
Other issues include marketing aspects and hints for high profitability, which is the back-bone of the survival of any venture.
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I would like to thank those who came up with the word class ideas on backing up commercial shrimp production in Nigeria. I would like to avail of this great opportunity by becoming one of the beneficiary of the pilot programme, I'm a Nigerian based in the Republic of Ireland, with strong interest in the development of our great nation in the Aqua culture sector ( fresh catfish, tilapia and shrimp farming). It would be highly appreciative if you could forward me with all the necessary information and documentations needed to be part of the scheme. Abidoye.A.A (winnie_toks@yahoo.com)
I nwould like to thank those who came up with the word class ideas on backing up commercial shrimp production in Nigeria. I would like to avail of this great opportunity by becoming one of the beneficiary of the pilot programme, I'm a Nigerian based in the Republic of Ireland, with strong interest in the development of our great nation in the Aqua culture sector ( fresh catfish, tilapia and shrimp farming). It would be highly appreciative if you could forward me with all the necessary information and documentations needed to be part of the scheme. Abidoye.A.A (winnie_toks@yahoo.com)