Kenya’s gov­ern­ment has started a new project to intro­duce the work of fish farm­ing to peo­ple who need jobs. The gov­ern­ment plans on build­ing sev­eral ponds and train­ing peo­ple in rais­ing fish so the peo­ple can even­tu­ally sell them in mar­ket for income.

From the New Nation, we read more details about the project.

The ambi­tious project worth over Sh1 bil­lion is also pro­jected to cre­ate about 120,000 new jobs.

The Min­istry of Fish­eries Devel­op­ment will over­see con­struc­tion of 200 fish ponds in 140 constituencies.

Funded through the eco­nomic stim­u­lus pro­gramme, each of the con­stituen­cies will receive Sh8 mil­lion for the project.
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Fish­eries min­is­ter Paul Otuoma last week launched the first of 20 ponds in Gatundu South, Cen­tral Province.

“The tra­di­tional fish sources are no longer depend­able to meet the ris­ing demand in the coun­try,” said the min­is­ter dur­ing the function.

Accord­ing the min­is­ter, sta­tis­tics indi­cate that in 1999 the coun­try har­vested 1.2 mil­lion tonnes of Nile Perch vari­ety though stocks have dwin­dled to 300 met­ric tonnes.

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