Peter M. Okoya Managing Director +256 772 820 108 +256 702 626 280 [email protected] Lacor, Amuru district 7 miles along Gulu – Nimule High way [email protected].

Peter M. Okoya

Managing Director+256 772 820 108+256 702 626 280

[email protected], Amuru district 7 miles along Gulu – Nimule High way

Company’s GoalI. commercialized integrated

aquaculture

II.Model fish farm for farmer – to –farmer technology transfer.

III.Profits

a.Create awareness.

b.Help you make a wise decision on whether or not to adopt.

? How

? AquacultureIs the breeding, rearing, and harvesting of plants and

animals in all types of water environments, including

tanks, ponds, rivers, lakes, and the ocean. - Health benefits when we eat fishes.

- Our experiences: I. PSFU GrantII. Presidential GrantIII.LEADS- USAID GrantIV. World Vision Grant projects

ARTIFICAL INSEMINATION

HATCHERY FOR EGGS INCUBATION

FISH

FINGERLINGS

CAT FISH (CLARIUS GARIEPINUS)

NILE TILAPIA (OREOCHHROMIS

NILOTICUS)

Demonstration and Training Center for Students and Farmers

What drove us into integrated commercial aquaculture?• Food and nutritional insecurity.

• Cash income generation

• Availability of raw materials.

• Demand

• Expensive, inaccessible, low quality fish feeds.

• Lack of modern technology.

• Misconceptions about aquaculture.

• Poor/ unfavorable policies- Loans for aquaculture.

• Poor infrastructural development .

• Climate changes

Constrains to sustainable commercial aquaculture

• Lack multiple Fishery training institutions.

• Lack of fishery enhancement.

• communication gap between Government, universities and production sector.

……………..Constrains

Change in mindset relative to aquaculture.

Availability of economically viable technologies.

Business incubation and mentorship of youth.

Youth funds by government and other agencies.

Model farms.

Fishery enhancement /restocking the large water bodies.

Private investors interested and willing to invest in aquaculture.

For aquaculture in Uganda to be successful, the following assumptions must hold true:

• provide infrastructure, adequate funding, farm credit and direct services.

• provide incentives and are willing to work in joint cooperation

with the aquaculture farmers to support training and on-farm

demonstrations.

The government and its agencies to support aquaculture

development by shaping policies that;

……………..assumptions