Improving Productivity And Profitability Of Smallholder Shrimp Aquaculture And Related Agribusiness In Nigeria
Chapter One
Preface
Background To The Study
Shrimp is the most important import product in fishery sector of utmost seaside countries of the world. tilling at each position can be profitable and sustainable, as long as biosecurity, productivity, environmental and social conditions are duly managed. To remain competitive and to cover import request access, governments and assiduity force chains are decreasingly feting the significance of transnational food safety norms, and of marketing and value- adding as effective competitive strategies( EJF, 2003). still, this study aims to ameliorate productivity and profitability for ‘ traditional ’ and ‘ traditional plus ’ shrimp directors and associated force chainmicro-to-small enterprises( MSEs) by perfecting biosecurity and enabling compliance with product quality and food safety norms for import and decoration domestic requests. Agriculture continues to play an important part in Nigeria’s profitable development as a contributor to food security and as a creator of income, employment and foreign exchange. Accordingly, monoculture is seen as having considerable eventuality for farther expansion in response to growing domestic and import request demands. Nigeria is among tropical countries endowed with rich shrimp coffers.
According to Dublin- Green and Tobor( 1992), the littoral waters of Nigeria are characterized by cornucopia of important living coffers including shrimps, generally members of the family penaeidae. With a product capacity of 12,000 metric tons( MT) per time, Nigeria’s shrimps force is presently from prisoner fisheries. adding mortal population and the soaring per capita demand for shrimp has created a demand- force gap. To compound for prisoner fisheries underproduction, shrimp granges have been established substantially in Asia and Latin America since the 1970s. The shrimp husbandry assiduity keeps expanding to heretoforenon-practicing areas, despite its heuristic unsustainable and environmentally unfriendly track records.
Africa has been linked as a implicit new frontier for the expansion of shrimp husbandry. Three biologically-rich and culturally important large swash deltas are among the areas that have been targeted for this new monoculture development the Niger Delta, the Tana Delta and the Rufiji Delta( EJF 2004). In Nigeria, oil painting pots like the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, have indicated interest in investing in shrimp culture in the Niger Delta( Business Day 2004). Indigenous fisheries professionals have also thrown their weights behind shrimp husbandry investment in Nigeria( Sogbesan et al 2004), and most lately, Sulalanka, a Sri Lanka institute secured the blessing of the Federal Government of Nigeria and the FAO to commence inland culture of marine black barracuda shrimp( This day 2008). Research institutions like the Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research( NIOMR) consider investing in shrimp tilling a top precedence( The Guardian 2008).
The diversity of these shrimp husbandry proponents notwithstanding, their ideal is participated to boost Nigeria’s foreign exchange earning though shrimp import. What’s noway mentioned by the prospective shrimp growers include the mortal rights abuses, heightening poverty in littoral communities, environmental damages, etc, associated with shrimp husbandry. These attendant problems will be the fate of Nigeria if sound policy frame and locally compatible system of husbandry aren’t espoused.
Statement Of The Problem
The culture of shrimp in Nigeria is still at different experimental stages consigned to exploration institutions. The product of youthful prawn species under controlled condition was tried in Nigeria without success( FAO 1980). Indeed though fin fish culture was also at an immaturity stage in Nigeria as at the 1980s, it seems the unknown failure to cultivate shrimp by the FAO ever discouraged original aquaculturists from further coordinated, thing- acquainted shrimp culture trials and investments vis- à- vis fish culture; therefore the development of indigenous shrimp culture ways stagnated and remain so till 2004( Business Day 2004). From also( that is, 2004) renewed instigation began with unilateral plan to importing Asian- bred culture approaches. still, unpublicized shrimp culture trial systems may have been accepted by exploration institutions with little or no successes during this quiescence times. still, this study is examining ways to ameliorate productivity and profitability of smallholder shrimp monoculture in Nigeria.
Objects Of The Study
The following are the objects of this study
1. To examine the ways to ameliorate productivity and profitability of smallholder shrimp monoculture in Nigeria.
2. To examine the position of practice of shrimp monoculture in Nigeria.
3. To identify the limitations in the development of shrimp monoculture by Nigeria growers.
Exploration Questions
1. What are the ways to ameliorate productivity and profitability of smallholder shrimp monoculture in Nigeria?
2. What’s the position of practice of shrimp monoculture in Nigeria?
3. What are the limitations in the development of shrimp monoculture by Nigeria growers?
Significance Of The Study
The following are the significance of this study
1. Findings from this study will educate the fish growers and the general public on the ways to ameliorate productivity and profitability of smallholder shrimp monoculture in Nigeria.
2. This exploration will be a donation to the body of literature in the area of the effect of personality particularity on pupil’s academic performance, thereby constituting the empirical literature for unborn exploration in the subject area.
Compass/ Limitations Of The Study
This study will cover the position of practice of shrimp monoculture by Nigeria fish growers considering the ways to ameliorate productivity and profitability in the face of several limitations.
Limitation Of Study
Financial constraint-inadequate fund tends to stymie the effectiveness of the experimenter in sourcing for the applicable accoutrements , literature or information and in the process of data collection( internet, questionnaire and interview).
Time constraint- The experimenter will contemporaneously engage in this study with other academic work. This accordingly will cut down on the time devoted for the exploration work.
References
Business Day 2004 Shell/ USAID N266 bn shrimp design on Shaky launch. BusinessDay Newspaper, December 13, 2004, Volume 3( 374) 1 – 2.
Dublin- Green C O and Tobor J G 1992 Marine coffers and Conditioning in Nigeria. NIOMR Technical paperNo. 84.
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