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Developing Aqua-shops in Kenya

Developing Aqua-shops in Kenya. Sammy K. Macaria and Judy Amadiva Ministry of Fisheries Development-Kenya. Introduction. Commercial aquaculture is gaining momentum in Kenya Farmers are now looking at it as viable enterprises especially in rural areas. . Introduction….

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Developing Aqua-shops in Kenya

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  1. Developing Aqua-shops in Kenya Sammy K. Macaria and Judy Amadiva Ministry of Fisheries Development-Kenya

  2. Introduction Commercial aquaculture is gaining momentum in Kenya Farmers are now looking at it as viable enterprises especially in rural areas.

  3. Introduction… With a promising huge domestic market for farmed fish in Kenya, Kenyans are willing to pay KES 150 to KES 300 (USD 1.8 to USD 3.6) for per kg. Almost all major urban centers in Kenya where aquaculture is practiced constitute assured markets especially for Tilapia. This indicates a real investment opportunity through aquaculture.

  4. Challenges Key challenge for fish farmers is in acquiring farm inputs such as fish feeds, harvesting nets, predator control nets, pond fertilizers, fingerling transportation bags, pond liners, oxygen tablets etc, most of which are to be procured from far away or totally lacking. Farmers have to travel for long distances to obtain most of these inputs.

  5. Addressing the challenges The challenges in acquiring inputs can be addressed by availing the inputs. This is by making it easy to acquire the inputs locally and in time. Better still to make all aquaculture inputs, services and information available from one place-the Aqua-shop

  6. What are Aqua-shops Aqua Shops are hubs for commercial and small-scale fish farmers to conveniently access aquaculture inputs, links to technical support and to markets.

  7. Establishing Aqua-shops • A feasibility survey conducted in Western Kenya outlined a number of factors that need to be considered while establishing Aqua-shops. • Farmers/ponds distribution, • Access road network, • Existence of related businesses such as agro-shops, vet-shops, animal feeds shops and agricultural materials dealers outlets

  8. Establishing Aqua-shops… The key factors however was number of fish farmersand the number of their ponds and how they are distributed within an area as this foretold the number of potential customers for an Aqua-shop. This could indicate the viability of the Aqua-shop within an area.

  9. Use of Geo-Mapping

  10. Identifying Franchisees • Franchisees operate the Aqua-shops, these could be personalities familiar in similar business or new entrant. • In both cases, there is need for sensitization and basic training in Aqua-shop operations. • Where to get inputs and their costs, key inputs suppliers, linkages with service providers, markets and market prices, potential buyers etc.

  11. Ripple effect Once the concept is introduced in area, the laws of demand and supply will drive development of Aqua-shops, Franchisees in areas with many farmers will have higher turn overs, thus generating higher incomes and possibility of competitiveness. Their social impact will be through providing quality services at affordable prices.

  12. Examples of Aqua-Shops

  13. NambobotoAquashop operator: Faith Buluma

  14. FunyulaAquashop: Aquashop operator Saul Odenyo and Janet Kerubo.

  15. OwakaAquashop: Aquashop Operator Raphael Were.

  16. Conclusions The Aqua-shops concept is working in piloted areas of Western Kenya and therefore it can work in the rest of the country, Aqua-shops play a big role in aquaculture development at both small and large scale operations.

  17. Acknowledgement Ministry of Fisheries Development-Kenya-FFE&PP through ESP & EAPARD DFID RIU- funded the first Aqua-shops Farm Africa -Coordinated Stirling University-Did farmers needs assessment AquaFish CRSP-Created customers for the Aqua-shops through capacity building programs-pond construction, on farm trials, pond dynamics and now the Best Management Practices (BMPs).

  18. Thank you

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