“The Senegalese derive 70% of their animal protein needs from fishery products, but faced with demography and the problems encountered by fishing, aquaculture constitutes the only alternative to achieve our food sovereignty”.
This is the statement made by the director general of the National Aquaculture Agency (Ana), Téning Sène, who visited the aquaculture farms located in Ndiéyène Sirakh and Khombole. Thus, for the development of this sector, Ana has started stocking a promoter’s fish ponds with 10,050 Tilapia (Wass) subjects and feed. Also, for the promotion of catfish (Yass), Ana has dispatched a technician to train the promoter’s employees for the promotion of this income-generating activity.
“Today, we are at 8,000 tonnes of production. On the other hand, the objective set out in the Plan Senegal Emergent (Pse) is to be able, today, to create through aquaculture 35 billion of GDP on ten years and 20,000 formal jobs The contribution remains low, but faced with the will of the government in partnership with the private sector, we will achieve the targeted economic objectives.
Because already in Thiès alone, aquaculture farms (49) are emerging from the ground “, learned Téning Sène, who invites project leaders to invest in the field of aquaculture.
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