Fisheries Society of Nigeria in collaboration with Winrock International, facilitators of the Farmer to Farmer programme, has concluded plans for developing Nigeria’s shrimp production potentials.
The programme, according to the National President of FISON, Dr. Abba Abdullah, is aimed at aquaculture development, diversification of the finish mono-product base, generating jobs, stemming rural migration, contributing to rural development, and bringing about integrated aquaculture programmes.
“It will also diversify Nigeria’s export base to generate foreign exchange and increase employment in the rural sector,” Abdullah said in a statement on Tuesday.
The FtF programme scheduled to hold in Lagos between February 4 and 7 this year, is a United States for International Development funded programme with special focus on Aquaculture in Lagos and Calabar . The date for Calabar’s programme according to FISON would be later in the month and will feature International Resource Persons.