Ghana: The Fisheries Commission lauds the government’s Aquaculture for Food and Jobs initiative

Published 2022년 1월 11일

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The Bono Regional Director of the Fisheries Commission, Mr. Hanson Kodzo Dzamefe Jnr, has commended the government's Aquaculture for Food and Jobs (AFJ) programme, stating it has boosted the region's fish production and created job opportunities for the youth. The programme has constructed 14 fish ponds and supplied fingerlings and feed to beneficiaries like the Wenchi Eagle Youth Association and Dormaa Senior High School. Dzamefe has urged the government to extend the programme to tertiary institutions and graduates. He also highlighted the Tilapia Seed (Tiseed) module of the programme, which has supplied over 853 brood stock of tilapia fingerlings to hatcheries, aiming to improve living standards, ensure food security, and create additional jobs in the fishing value chain.

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Mr. Hanson Kodzo Dzamefe Jnr, the Bono Regional Director of the Fisheries Commission has lauded the government’s flagship Aquaculture for Food and Jobs (AFJ) programme which has improved the region’s annual fish production. He said the Tilapia Seed (Tiseed) module of the programme had also had a significant impact on fish production as well, thereby creating numerous job opportunities for the youth in the region. “The programme has created an avenue to train the youth on aquaculture, and provided them with requisite skills in fish production”, Mr. Dzamefe told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview in Sunyani on Tuesday. He said since the implementation of the AFJ 2020, the programme had constructed 14 fish ponds and supplied beneficiaries including; the Wenchi Eagle Youth Association and Dormaa Senior High School with 18,800 tilapia and catfish fingerlings. The beneficiaries were also provided with feed to enhance their fishing activities, he said and appealed ...

Source: Ghanaweb