Transcript Success Story from ACRSP Ambassador - Kenya Nancy Gitonga, Charles C. Ngugi*, Betty Nyandat, and James Bowman *Presenting Author.

Success Story from ACRSP
Ambassador - Kenya
Nancy Gitonga,
Charles C. Ngugi*, Betty
Nyandat, and James Bowman
*Presenting Author
Activities
• Contact with development partners, USAID, JICA
FAO missions - leverage funding etc
• Regional partners– LVFO – EAC -EU funding
aquaculture activities
• Development of Aquaculture sites such as Sagana,
Kiganjo and Wakhungu
• Strengthened Collaboration between Universities,
Research institutions and Fisheries Department
The country USAID Mission invited by the
Director of Fisheries visited fish
farmers in Central and Western Kenya
They found that farmers were already
growing fish at commercial Level.
Began tilapia and catfish seed
production in their hatcheries
At Wakhungu fish farm - developed by Fisheries Department
Hatching tanks are used to raise catfish as bait for Lake
Victoria Nile perch
Officers sent for training in Egypt and Thailand
They have commenced all male tilapia culture
We took the USAID mission to Moi University where a
short course on Hatchery management was going on
We even had a photo session
with visiting Ugandan MPs, trainees and Moi
University Management
And more interaction
with others
Visitors at Moi University
Results from these visits
• Kenya Business Development Services floated a
tender for development of small-scale Clarias
fingerling production clusters in western Kenya
covering two districts
• Moi University and FD were awarded the project
• The one year project began on 1st December
2006
Emerging Markets for Catfish
• The purpose of this intervention (project)
is to work with existing small- scale
farmers on catfish fingerling and Nile
tilapia production in Western Kenya, and
transform them into high-yield
production clusters that operate as
profitable business ventures.
Target groups
• Over the 12-month period, it is expected
that 40 fish farmers will be developed and
organized into 4 production clusters. It is
• projected that 19.2 million baitfish will be
produced in the first year from this
intervention, realizing an annual turnover
of Kshs 38.4m ( ~ US $600 K)
Project Activities began with
visits to farmers to assess
what was on the ground
Progress made
• Base line data collected
• Identification of clusters and cluster sites
done
• Community mobilization done
• Market survey, strategy, and formalizing
linkages between producers and bait fish
traders on going
• Group dynamics on going - leading to
training on catfish production
We organized farmers into clusters, did
sensitization then group dynamics then will
training them in catfish Bait production
Benefits to fish farmers
• Through technical assistance in propagation,
production, and general pond husbandry, small
scale fish farmers will learn that improved
management can lead to increased production.
• Through assistance in enterprise budgeting and
cash-flow analysis, they will learn how to
critically examine production methods and
business decisions that impact their costing of
inputs through output.
USAID Mission visited to check on progressing
David Knopp - Chief of Party –and Phares Ratego
Next course of action
• We plan to hold two training sessions in
March 2007
• Commence production
• Monitor, evaluate production and value chain
• Develop market chains and linkages
• Challenge - Exit strategy – sustainability of
the emerging market
Expected impact
• Concept of working as a group
• Key is commercialize fish farming in the
country
• Focus on markets and production targets
• Value chain addition will take this project
to the next level
• Case studies will target on beneficiaries
Indicators
• Number of house hold benefited
• Number of individual farmers trained (by
Gender)
• New technology tied to production, social
and management
• Volume and value of purchases from small
scale holders
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