This is a presentation made by the SMEs working towards promoting integrated aquaculture agriculture system through on-farm demonstration and use of socio-cultural innovations to disseminate climate information.

1. Promoting integrated aquaculture
agriculture system through on-farm
demonstration and use of socio-cultural
innovations to disseminate climate
information
CSA BUNDLE 2
30th August 2023

2. Background
• In 2021, the International Water Management
Institute made a call for proposals for SMEs in
agribusiness to apply for grants to address problems
affecting smallholder farmers.
• Northern and Luapula provinces aquaculture
affected by climate-related extreme weather events
such as floods and unpredictable rainfall patterns
• Six SMEs came together and responded to the call, and were
awarded a USD50,000 grant

3. Project Management Structure

4. Team members

5. Activity Plan
Activity Jan Feb March Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Year 1
Providing extension services to farmers (using
the Private Sector Extension Model).
Generating CIS data with WorldFish from
reference ponds
Setting up of demonstration ponds
Farmer field days in gender lense
Farm site monitoring and data collection
CIS/CSA dissermination
Building partnerships with NAIS, Shamba and
other MSD members
Dissemination of CIS and CSA information on
local radio in local language (road shows)
Dissemination of CIS and CSA information on
local radio in local language (radio)
Year 2
Organization of farmers n scaling sites
Providing extension services
Farmer field days in gender lense
Dissemination of CIS and CSA information on
local radio in local language (road shows)
Dissemination of CIS and CSA information on
local radio in local language (radio)
Farm site monitoring and data collection

6. Experiences from EUNIMOS

7. Experience on training smallholders on integrating aquaculture with
small livestock and providing extension services
• Dissemination of information to farmers on local radio stations, provincial
agriculture and commercials shows, Roadshows in partnership with
Kasama Arts, DOF, NAIS, ZANIS.
• Constructed demo fishponds and provided on-farm training to farmers
reachable in our communities.
• The training included pond construction, stocking fingerlings, feeding
practices and harvesting

8. Partners exhibiting while Kasama Arts, Zambia is on stage giving information

9. Eunimos Investment Products
Value addition of fish and poultry products from the farm

10. Provides markets to soyabean farmers

11. ADSEK ENTERPRISES LTD: Experiences Provision of inputs (feeds)
Mansa Shop Kawambwa and Chembe Outlets

12. Agents For Hybrid Poultry Farm
Broilers, Saaso and Pullets Supplying over 2000 Chicks per
week

13. Provision of markets for Fish and Livestock Feed
➢ ADSEK has been able to have constant supply of feed through
out the year
➢ Increased volumes of supply of feed from 10MT to 20 MT per
month
➢ Introduced fish feeds in Kawambwa to serve new market
➢ Providing extension services to famers involved in fish farming,
poultry, small ruminants and crop production
➢ Opportunity to work with the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock;
supplying about 1,000 bags of fish feed to about 10 farmers who
are on the CEEC Aquaculture program.

14. Hope Ways Fish Farm: Experiences Provision of
inputs (fingerlings)

15. Highlights on Fingerling Distribution

16. Highlights Fingerlings Production
2021 to May 2023
Production has increased from
50 000 to 320 000 including our own stocking

17. Purchase of Broodstock
Broodstock has been purchased and increased from 250 to
5000
Male 1250 and females 3750
and
By the year 2024 will would like to have 20 000 broodstock
for fingerling and own farm fish production
Male from 1250 to 5000 and female from 3750 to 15000
Up grading fish hatchery
With hatching and nursery units is on going project.

18. Highlights on farm trainings

19. Highlights on Extension Services

20. 2022 farmers Registration on KoBo collect
Application

21. 12/6/2023
23
15,781
10,167
5,814
0
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
14,000
16,000
18,000
Total Northern Luapula
Farmer Registration
1,130
5,076
9,575
0
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
Smart phone small phone Don't have a
phone
Farmers with Phones

22. CHALLENGES
The first challenge was a ban of fingerling production by
the ministry suspecting fish virus at our hatchery. That
effected our production and distribution of fingerlings.
Last February 2023 the report was given to the ministry
with the help of FAO in Siavonga and it was discovered
that and suspected virus and fish diseases where not on
our farm but on Chabeshi river to our farmers in
Shiwangandu. Where same fish were collected.

23. WAY FORWARD
We will continue to be fingerling producer in the province
by commercializing the production with open, hapa and
indoor hatchery systems.
Broodstock unit
Hatching unit
Nursery unit
We also continue looking for financial support and
business partnership in the fish value chain business

24. KASAKALABWE
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25. Experiences from Kasakalabwe
• Kasakalabwe are the fingerings producers both O. macrochir and
catfish .
• Targets to produce one million fingerings of macrochir and five
hundred thousand for catfish.
• In 2021 to 2023 we produced 1,070 000 fingerlings for macrochir fish
species
• Our markets covers farmers in Northern Province, including the CEEC
beneficiaries
• Mortality rate for our fingerlings is around 10%
• We have not been able to produce catfish fingerlings since 2020 due to
low pressure of water in the hatchery.

26. Fingerling Production
• Number of broodstock for females has
increased from 1334 in 2022 to 4877 in
2023. Male broodstock also increased
from 666 in 2022 to 2438 in 202.
• We have made some improvements in
the green house hatchery, so in 2024 we
target to increase production to 1, 838. 875
fingerings
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29. CHALLENGES
• Due to low supply of water in both hatcheries, mortality rate will
be higher during production season.
• High temperatures and fungal infections breakout in Northern
Province
• This has affected our production target
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31. ACTIVITIES UNDER AICCRA
•Dissemination of CIS CSA technologies targeting 75,000 (40%
women) beneficiaries
•Promoting integrated Aquaculture Agriculture System through
expressive arts
•Dissemination of information on Climate Smart Agriculture through
short tailor made films
•Promoting integrated Aquaculture Agriculture System through pre
recorded short drama clips
•Purchase of additional equipment and materials for out door use and
increased visibility.

32. Road Shows - Gender Inclusion Experience
Kasama Arts ensured that it targeted women specifically and
made sure that 50% of farmers reached were women.
This was done through affirmative action (positive
discrimination) where we had specific groups that are
exclusively female dominated. These groups are in Ngulula,
Kapata, Kalafya, Mwamba,

33. Mobile Road Show in Kasama

34. Beam Shows .......
The films were gender sensitive, and specifically gear
messaging to the specific context and needs of women.
We employed the aspect of Gender Equity. (Treating men
and women differently in accordance with their
respective needs) In this context equity entails focusing
more on issues affecting women and addressing the
needs of women without necessarily neglecting the
welfare of men. The essence was to address the needs of
men and women using a gender lens.

35. Beam show During the agriculture show
in Kasama

36. Radio Drama
Timing of radio drama was done in such ways that women
can listen to it at a time that does not clash with other major
household tasks. Kasama Arts rehearsed with the radio
stations to allocate evening times between 6pm and 8pm.
This was to ensure that no one is left behind and maximum
listener-ship is attained. The targeted radio stations were:
Radio Mano, Radio Kasama, Radio Luswepo, Lutanda Radio,
KFM Bangwela radio, Luapula Radio , Tuta radio, Lukwanga
Radio, Kalungwishi radio and Radio Yangeni, One Love
Radio Walamo Radio, Liberty and Lwansase. however only
two were used.

37. Ladies taking lead in Radio Drama

38. M and E officer explaining to the PS for
Northern

39. Exhibition stand for both Kasama Arts and Kasakalabwe Cooperative

40. Orienting Members of Staff over the project

41. Interaction with Farmers during the road shows in Lunre (Cooperative day)

42. Triple Blessing
Triple Blessing Supermarket

43. Experience on linking farmers to output
markets
• Triple Blessing is the trading business center registered as Triple C
shopping Complex in Luwingu district.
• Our role in our bundle partnership is of an off taker, linking farmers to
their needful services. We buy fish, grains, livestock and livestock
products and other farm products.
• We reach farmers by using our local radio station, workshops,
teaching them using our seven demo ponds, phone calls, WhatsApp
groups, one to one and we take opportunity of some other public
gatherings.

44. District shows

45. Our experience
• We have so far managed to buy to buy and sold 2500kg of fish in the
past 8 months.
• As Triple Blessing we have produced 850kg of fish from our demo
ponds and we are in the district record to be the highest producer of
fish in this year.
• 80% of women are our customers for fish and livestock products in
our supermarket and the demand keeps on increasing.
• We need to stock different sizes of fish to cutter for all people’s needs.
• With livestock products, it is better to cut pieces of chickens than
selling the whole bird.
• We do sale our products at an affordable prices.
• People love learning by seeing.

46. Experiences from Triple Blessings
• We are encouraging people to producing fish and livestock at a
commercial level to meet the market demand.
• We are also being motivated to start commercial production of
fish and livestock.
• We have sponsored a group of 10 women and 10 men working
together in Kachila’s village to make a communal demo pond
on which they will learn more about integrated farming and the
qualification to a member, one must have at least a fishpond
and have started keeping some livestock
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47. Some photos and videos showing the
flow of customers in our supermarket

48. Our other projects as we demonstrate to
farmers about integrated farming

49. Thank You!!!
We acknowledge the funding from the
International Development Association (IDA) of the
World Bank to the Accelerating Impact of CGIAR
Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project