A government funded plant in Homa bay is complete, it has the capacity to process 25 tonnes of fish daily. It is expected to encourage aquaculture and provide employment to hundreds of people.
Fishermen are being advised to form savings and credit societies to ensure the facility is efficiently managed – Lets hope the fishermen have started organising.
I hope they will also start producing Fish oil.
haiya.kwani KBC wana portal pia??
They have had one for years. From 2000: https://web.archive.org/web/20000816153258/http://www.kbc.co.ke:80/
2022, itachomwa
wewe ndio utachoma?
The problem with these fisheries guys is a classical rigid mindset.
At stakeholders forums or meetings they always have this solution of building fish processing plants
World bank wamefund hadi wakachoka
And i am pretty old, but i aint never seen any of these processing plants working even a month after the launch…
Its either these processing plants or cooling units or boats… All of which never work
So stupid guys
What do you suggest?
Nothing mcoondu hii
Their best technicians come to waste away in Nairobi slums.
I said 2022 itachomwa sio 2022 nitachoma. They is a difference
True, another factory was built for Lake Turkana fisheries many years ago (by Norway’s development agency) it completely failed despite the huge fish resources in the lake. Failures sometimes happens when we have full spectrum dominance of a very few power players in a region. Nothing moves until power players sanction it, no one dares step out of line to volunteer and take the leadership role to organise a collective society for their own common good; such persons are perceived as potential political rivals, to do so is dicing with death.
The projects consequently fail despite their being present in the communities’ capable people – fear factor.
In such situations, the government via its Economic Development Team would need to become the front line facilitator in the formation of organising society, to naturalise obstacles ingrained by local/regional family oligarchs over many years.
If such a factory was built in a place where the political environment is different i.e Nakuru, the community directly invited to become stakeholder; the local community would probably have assembled, elected a secretary, treasury, chairman, committee members, agreed a membership contribution, opened a bank account and named the society. Hence, the pyrethrum revival needs to bring on board the grower community.
Adding, sorry if you find the response too long…
A report on the failed Turkana factory concluded by saying;
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Why would they succeed in Turkana and unable to do so in Kisumu!!!
Consider the pricing. the middle man lorries that transport the fish to nairobi park right outside the lake and pay in cash. the whole system needs to be looked at differently. just like the sugarcane farmers and the factories reletionship.