Fish Farming In Africa?

African companies produce 2 tons of fish per person employed,  
. . . Norway is 172 tons,
. . . China is  6 tons.

Aquaculture is one of the most efficient ways of producing animal protein.
. . . This industry is beginning to bud in Africa.
. . . It could create significant employment and
. . . provide many people with safe food.

In Africa small aqua-farms lack appropriate funding,
. . . failure of such individual operations is inevitable.
. . . There are very few large-scale aqua-farms.
Unless there is a well-designed distribution and retail chain,
. . . up to 30% of fish is lost on the way to the consumers.
. . . Such losses make distribution expensive.

The continent’s largest tilapia farmer, African Century,
. . . operations span countries as diverse as Uganda and Zimbabwe, and
. . . is successfully integrating smallholders into its expanding operations.
John Owers, the company’s investments director, says
. . . that smallholders need to be integrated into larger-scale operations
. . . with robust business models in order to thrive commercially.
Pursuing a strategy of white protein production, African Century
. . . combines fish and chicken production.
. . . Smallholders that are integrated into schemes like those of African Century
. . . are called “outgrowers”.
Source: howwemadeitinafrica