Note: This article was (first) published in 2022, on LinkedIn The whole catfish sector is in distress from inflation and there is bound to be serious effects. Farmers recently reached a consensus to sell catfish for ₦2,000/kg irrespective of grow-out size as they cannot keep up with a rising production cost, feed in particular. Price […]
Note: This article was first published on LinkedIn, in Sept 2021. With the worsened food inflation, virtually all protein sources are now costly and not readily accessible. We do not see the full implication of this. It’s a scary one. And the end result might just be a useful one to some people, suggesting the […]
All these indicators then point to the fact that the fisheries sector, one which consistently forms 3-5% of the total contribution of the agriculture sector (between 20-40%) to the national GDP and with an expanding industrial base of a growing economy demanding more of fish by-products, where average GDP per capita reaches $4,000 pushing purchasing […]
