TIKIFISH FARMS

  Have a target weight, If you want to feed 1,000 pcs of catfish juveniles to table size, create a feeding plan and know the quantity of fish feed you’ll be needing to feed them till harvest. The person who is buying from you at harvest determines what to produce, don’t just farm fish without consulting experts in the field. I buy 0.35 - 0.6 grams, you cannot produce 1kg fish and ask me to come and buy, I will never buy, unless I have a demand for 1kg fish. If your buyers intend to buy 2kg fish, then produce 2kg fish, don’t just farm fish and start looking for buyers everywhere, later you’ll say “Fish Farming is not profitable”. Note:  You need 1.25kg of fish feed to produce 1kg live fish weight. If you have 1,000 pcs of catfish juveniles and you want to culture fish for a buyer that buys 1kg catfish. 1,000 pcs X 1.25kg = 1,250kg A bag of fish feed weighs 15kg 83.3 bags = 1,250kg To produce an average of 1kg catfish at harvest Your 1,000 pcs fish seeds need to consume 83.3bags...

Of all the scarcity of commodities we experience in our dear country; scarcity of fresh catfish is what I dislike the most. I get frightened whenever I hear of an impending scarcity of fish. Scarcity of petrol; can be endured, because regardless of circumstances, fuel would still come by. But the scarcity of fish is terrible because, day to day, we process an equivalent of 1,000 kilograms of fresh catfish in the smokehouse and it will take a fish farmer roughly 100 days to produce 1 tonne (1000kg) of fish. Fish is not something we can just manufacture anytime we want, it takes time and process. To be honest, a lot of people are going into fish smoking/processing now. Forgetting that there’s a widening gap that needs to be filled. A misdirection of importance and knowledge has created a scarcity of fish. This is because a lot of people feel there’s more profit to be made in processing, forgetting that much more could be made in fish farming; if only you stick to the principles that cont...