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Become self-employed, earn a living with fish farming - FARMER
depending on the fis h species and age. "" is advisable to buy hsh juveniles 01 IS weeks old than fing e rlings of sill: to igh l weeks. In additio n, you don', have to depend solely on e ll:pcnsive imporled leed . sillce one can learn to produce local cheap fced . "Catfish 15 very reproductive, with sil: females and Iwo maJes lish broodstock can yive you up to 20,000 fingerlings at a time. I have witnessed 32,700 at ollce in my farm . During this time if you do not have a place lor expanSIOn, OU ClUJ s lart selling Y eir th babies (fing erlings) for N15 per one.
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unemployment in the country IS e nabling cn\lironmcn l to promote SME.,. Govemmenl's altention had been drawn to thi s directI o n SlDce II
"An undergraduate or somebody who is un employed can start with this amount a.nd begin to make profits. If you buy them a.nd rear for fOUl to SIX mont hs . you sell them and m!'lkc more prolils. '~ t my farm , I seIJ
government Clllloot provide all the JObs for every citizen, there IS
need for sc)(·employment
as well as p romote economic growth. To rid the country 01 corruption , a r ned robbery menace and other sooal vices
as a result of u nemployment. O n the score, livestock business has been recommended
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fing erlings N15 while juveniles is N25 de pending on the species of fish. If
agriculturalists. ('onsultanls as the easiest means of se ll employment that can ennch practitioners s illce it does n't require 100 muc h money to Invest inlo 11.
This ~diti on om livestock o ffe rs you the opportunity 01 learning how to Invesl in lo a
s mall Kale fa rmmg called fish farmmg . All ove r t he world , agriculturalis t!. are ma lor promoters of '''Ie economy because they cle ate Jobs fot themse lves and also employ ot h e rs They are majo r suppljcrs of f()()Ol products to their families aDd the society a l larg e, the leby reducmg bunger, poverty, unemployment {·tc. Tn Nigena tooay. about 30 million Nigl'rians are unemployed, thL'! is mOle than the populalion in Ghana and
Fish fa.rming is anoth er way of sell·employed
other West African countries, even Lagos state. Based on this, an agricu ltural co nsultant, Managing Dltector, Juvana Farm, Pnnce Arinze Onebullue, adVises Nlgenans to d o themsel ves good to vt' nture into fish f!'lrmlng Since It iloesn't no t requllc much ca pilal to rear fi s h fanmng. Fish lanmng does not take long penod before you beg tn to reap. Mode rn fi s h farms d oesn' t need larg e ell:pn nse of land to succeed . ProVided you have assess to water, land/space like the size 01 Olle roo m apartment then yo u do n't have a ny problem sta rting this project. With the su m 01 NSO,OOO one can set up
a small scale fish fing erling producing business. Wllat one requires here is a hatc hing pond o f (12ft by 4ftl that can ix!"collstruded IIItO a shape of box by any ex peri e nced ca rpenter ilnd plumber willlS planks , nalls a nd 3:.:2 woods then lay tarpau lin or thick water-p rool mate nal It1slde the boll:. Add dean waler and start your hatchery activities. If olle prefers to go for GrowOUI fis h farming (ra iSing finge rlings to table sized fish suitaule for cons umption) , it will ta ke about N300,OOO to construct a standard concrete fish pond (16ft by 10ft) and slock It with 1,000 lingerhngs and leed the m till maturity (fOUl to SIX months)
well managed, this specie can allaw 2- 4kg in live months. "Ca tfish is a po.p ular and heavily demanded It IS tradllionally posiltoned as a semi-luxury livestock, even though it 15 relatively expensive, its cons umption demand 15 high. Unfortu na tely our academiC curricular is not stmclured to make us bus mess COIlSCJOUS, that is wh y peop le don ' t understan d th e conce pt o f private e n) e rprise After school. it becomes d ifUcull 10 queue into busin ess ideas .
because Ih e y believe thai wh ile in sch oo l Jobs are waiting lor them. II IS no more 50 Ihese da ys. You ha ve to c rea le Jobs lor yourself and others. The aim of every fis h fanner Is to breed a Iish to one k.ilogramme body weight 01 more in the shortest possible time, usually between four and sil: monUJs II properly done. Unit price for table SIZed are broadly N550-N650 per kg al lhe farm gale, NSOO·950 at the retail outlet . and N1.300 Nt , BOO in restaurants depending on the size. One gelS more profit tJ operates a market outlet 10 cut 0[1 shylock middlemen : I can assure prospective farmers that the profit eJ:pected frOID fish wes from expenence IS about 40 to 50 percent above what was IIlvesled . 0 all ne 01 the ch enges IS thai people find il dillicult to get the last growing specie of fish, but I am happy to tell you that Ln my Jovana Farms we have high quality Ush fingelhngs lind Juveniles you ca n s tart your fish farming businen with . This catfish specie IS called H ETERO·C lARIAS. I use Hetero-Branchu s for crossing and they grow lasler and beavier than any oth er ca tfish s pecie . ViSit our website: www.jovanalarm.com to know more about fish production Tec hnicality 15 another challenge. What UlIS lDeans IS that people need to go lo t proper pra c ti cal training before venturing mto lhe fis h farming business Some people who slarted the business without the right s pecie o f fish o r Wllhout practicatlratnlllg have already s hut down for lack of appropnate lrilmmg They did It as a hobby, and at the end of the day, abandoned the bUSlDe ss because 01 on e
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At 10, liotary Club of Ikoyi Metropolitan charts a new course to empower 'humanity en y~ars ago, a non govellllUental orga nisatIOn, R,)tary Oub o f lkoyi mullipllCd to ROtary Club o f Ikoyi Metropolitan to cover more growuls 10 Its self-less services to h u manity. Today, Ro tary C lub o f IkoY I Metropolitan ;ings a new so ng withou t reg rets In providing the Ol'ed o f the less pnvileged, rather charts a new cou rse to em)Y.)wer humallily worldWide Colounng t~ e occaSio n are Rotarian dlgnl tanes from 1g e ria and Accra East who are happy f,,, the C lub 's remarkable IIlI'hleVeme nl$ 1ft 20 11. Dr. Mt.ke Aleki., Charter and fonne r Presld .. "t , Ik.oyi Oub M e tropolitan re iterated the genes Is. 0 1 the Clu b 's aduevement stOce 1999, as he said that the major ac hievement _s Ihat the club has sUf'VIved Ill! today " U's when the club SUf'VIved that you can execu te projec ts ~Rota ry IS a pbt.lanthropist a nd non government orga lllsallon rnnde up o f me n
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and wome n tn bus mess. As Philanthro pis ts we Identify ourselves with people's need and c hall enges, suc h like heallh c haUcnges. illiteracy, e c onomic empowerment. co mmunit y d e ve lopme nt based on tbe availabl e reso urce. We achieve"aU thiS through o ur Ro tary Community C lub. a group of ge ntle me n selected to look into th e needs o f co mmuntlt es where we operate. In addition, c urre nt Presid e nt o f the Rotary C lub o f IkoYI Met ropolitan , Rotanan Jfe nyinwa Rita Eje"zte, tn he r accolade has atte nded ove r 25 club installations, aboullO DGVlSits to different clubs and ha ve also lo llowshlpped With over 40 cl ubs. She silJd , Rotary has eve ry ca us e to ce leb rat e because when we look at our record , not boasllng. we have made a lot of achievements ra nging from ultra modern toiletries, donated medical equipment to hospitals , he lmet a nd other sa fety guides
10 Ass ociation of Okada Riders , ObaJc nde Me a of Lagos. And Presently we are working to assist with phYSiotherapy_ca ncer centre fo r the patie nls. Ity said, the dub has established a long lasling relat io nship/partnership with the Rotary club o f Accra East and a certiJtcale of service and appreciation (for Rotary InternatIonal service proJCClS 20 11 -2012) . "Rotary has succeeded in dcmaltllg to orphanages in Acc ra East, created awareness on drug abuse etc. PreSident of the club, Accra East, Joe Hyde Jnr., in the midst of his Ghanian colleagues at the occasion said, we are LIl Nlgena to cele brale and to gather mone y to se rve the needs o f humanity (c hildren both home and international which has been the target 01 Rotary. The d ub IS planted to promote healthcare all over the wo rld . Rotary has a polio program me to eU minale poUo disease all over the world, fight against HIV. mala ria be<:ause we have a network wIDch IS non-political. Pub lic Relation chair Rotary, Adeke mi Folorunso. said the club derives joy w hen it all e Viates cha lle nges in people's life and Ihal it has succeeded in do mg for ten years now.
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