Oct 28 2015
This lecture has been delivered in two training course hosted during 2015 by the Egyptian International Centre for Agriculture (EICA). The first course hosts African participants while the second course hosts participants from Africa, Asia and Latin America. This lecture serves as a platform for the group projects through which course participants form 3-4 groups …
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Oct 25 2015
Credit: Patrick Appenteng (Ghana) The inserted photos belong to a cage farm in the Asuogyaman District, Ghana. The cage farmer uses a motorized local planked canoe of about 10m in length to cart feed to the farm. The farmer is the one sitting on his feed. The unfortunate thing is that such farmers …
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Oct 22 2015
Photos’ credit: Lucka Paschal and Erick Kiiza (Tanzania) Description: Lucka Paschal and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The inserted pictures were taken during 2010 in an integrated fish-chicken farm located at Tarime District in Mara Region, Tanzania. Tarime is one of the districts of Mara Region and is situated …
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Aug 13 2015
The inserted photo was taken on August 3, the first technical day of the “Fish Culture Development – Africa” training course for 2015. This 3-month course is being organized by the Egyptian International Center for Agriculture – EICA” and jointly supported by EICA and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The course this year …
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Aug 05 2015
This presentation updates and analizes the developing of Egyptian aquaculture based on the latest statistics on 2013. The analysis highlights the decline in tilapia production and possible causes for that. The African as well as the global perspectives are addressed in this presentation. Aquaculture systems, fish trade, processing, fish feed and more of related topics are …
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Jul 27 2015
This video was filmed during October 2014 in the River Nile, Damietta region. Video credit: Willy Oviedo (Uruguay) Typically, freshwater cages in Egypt has a surface area of 100m2 (10×10 m) with a depth of about 5 meters. Cage farmers gained enough experience in cage construction and management. The floats used in …
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Jul 23 2015
Credit: Patrick Appenteng (Ghana) The ultimate aim of aquaculture is to provide food security aside providing employment to people. This picture shows a little boy who had had his share of fish food from his mother degutting harvested fish from a fish farm in the Asuogyaman District of Ghana. This shows of course that …
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Jul 06 2015
Photo credit: Randall Bevis (In-Seine.org) Review: Randall Bevis and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) This photo was taken in Luang Nam Tha Province where some tilapia ponds exist and provide their harvest to local markets such as this one. The people in the rural communities in Laos account for more than …
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Jun 18 2015
Photos’ credit: Walid Salah El Din (Egypt) Review: Walid Salah El Din and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The inserted photos have been taken in a commercial aquaculture project in Tangier region, Morocco. The area dedicated for fish farming is about 28 hectares, on which tilapia and crayfish are farmed. The farm depends …
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Jun 16 2015
Credit: Numel Phiri (Zambia) Review: Numei Phiri and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The inserted photo is taken in a small-scale fish farm in Zambia. The farm which belongs to a female fish farmer, has a total of 3 ponds; 2 breeding ponds (5mx5m) each and one production pond (20mx25m), the …
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