Fish Farming Is A Goldmine – Asekome
Fish farming has been described a goldmine business venture by Mustafa Asekome.
Mr Asekome, who stated this in an interview with Agbelonews at his Gowon Estate residence, where the catfish farm is situated, said he decided to go into fish farming because of his “flair for agriculture,” adding, “and looking at the present economy, I think it is now tilted towards food, which is feeding the nation, because most people are running away from farming and the population is increasing and we must feed. So, as such I decided to take the bull by the horn and start something no matter how small.”
Mustafa (left) and Jalil in their fish farm
Mustafa, a Banking and Finance graduate, who jointly runs the fish farm with his younger brother, Jalil Asekome, told Agbelonews that the farm took off with an initial capital of seventy thousand naira (N70,000.00) and eight hundred (800) fingerlings.
Two years into the business, the fish farm has increased in capacity to three thousand, five (3,500) fish, with the two brothers, who are both graduates of the University of Benin, south-south Nigeria, looking to acquire an expanse of land on which to do the fish farm on a larger scale.
“We intend moving to a bigger scale, having a land of our own where we can impact more to Nigeria by increasing the GDP of the economy in our own little way and sharing our knowledge of fish farming with young Nigerians, who want to go into fish farming,” Jalil Asekome, who holds B. Sc. in Economics and Statistics, revealed.
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Mr Asekome, who stated this in an interview with Agbelonews at his Gowon Estate residence, where the catfish farm is situated, said he decided to go into fish farming because of his “flair for agriculture,” adding, “and looking at the present economy, I think it is now tilted towards food, which is feeding the nation, because most people are running away from farming and the population is increasing and we must feed. So, as such I decided to take the bull by the horn and start something no matter how small.”
Mustafa (left) and Jalil in their fish farmMustafa, a Banking and Finance graduate, who jointly runs the fish farm with his younger brother, Jalil Asekome, told Agbelonews that the farm took off with an initial capital of seventy thousand naira (N70,000.00) and eight hundred (800) fingerlings.
Two years into the business, the fish farm has increased in capacity to three thousand, five (3,500) fish, with the two brothers, who are both graduates of the University of Benin, south-south Nigeria, looking to acquire an expanse of land on which to do the fish farm on a larger scale.
“We intend moving to a bigger scale, having a land of our own where we can impact more to Nigeria by increasing the GDP of the economy in our own little way and sharing our knowledge of fish farming with young Nigerians, who want to go into fish farming,” Jalil Asekome, who holds B. Sc. in Economics and Statistics, revealed.
[See Interview Page for details]
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