₦airaland Forum

@denex
Nice info/insight. Which side where you operating the fish pond? From your calculation, I can see you estimated one fish for N300.00. All the places I've seen fish sales (my side) its sold in kilos. 1kg is usually between N300 to N400. Now depending on the sizes of your fishes, you may have 1 fish that weighs 1kg or more. You may also have 2 or 3 of them weighing same 1kg.
However, I believe with nice feeding format and sticking to workable techinques like sorting, one should be able to have a relatively same big sized fish.
As per the Chinese breed, I wasnt able to open the site yet, but it is not a bad idea at all!!

Feeding is very important. if u want to harvest in 4 monts (ideally harvest time is from 6 months up), then you must feed them VERY well. I started with a natural pond with about 2500 fingerlings. I read many comments that fish produced in Nigeria cannot meet local demands and that gave me the nurge to go on. It wasnt easy though. I spent above 800k putting things in order (also prepared for a second pond, netting, feeding, fingerlings etc). Well in about 7 months, we harvested and then the biggest challenge ever!! Selling the fishes. It was difficult getting buyers that will buy at large quantities and clear off the sales. We calculated that immediately after harvest we shall be smiling to the bank and have enouh money to feed the 2nd pond which we already stocked with about 4000 fishes. But that was not to be. infact it was a difficult tim for us seeing the matured fishes thinning out because they were not getting well fed as before as cash flow was low.
The point I'm tryin to make is that its not just putting up a pond there are many considerations: water, sorting, security, feeding, book keeping and marketing.
Now our second pond is ready. I hereby plead to anyone that can advise on where an how to get the buyers to clear off majority of the stock. I still believe that local demands are not yet met in Nigeria, but one needs to have the link or information to supply through the right channel and compensate for the labor. patdozie@yahoo.com