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Oluwafemi Awodele
1 month ago
Overview
Imagine a farmers’ organisation selling catfish worth N4.5 billion in 2024. This is what the central sales record of the IDIPR Eriwe Farm Village, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, shows.
Although many people associate Ijebu Ode garri with its brand of Ijebu garri, it is home to 46 catfish clusters under the aegis of the Ijebu Development Initiative on Poverty Reduction (IDIPR) cooperative, producing about 2000 metric tonnes of fish annually.
The Eriwe Farm Village, which is located on 156 hectares of farmland acquired from the Ogun State Government, is considered as the biggest catfish farm cluster in West Africa.
It has 67 concrete fish tanks, 5,400 earthen ponds (dog-out) fish ponds, 2,720 boreholes, a modern fish processing centre with smoking kilns and several pumping machines, also powered by a solar energy system, and a modern feed mill.
more: https://dailytrust.com/how-ijebu-cooperative-society-built-multibillion-naira-fish-farm/
