Accelerating pond aquaculture development and resilience beyond COVID: Ensuring food and jobs in Ghana
Over the past decade, the aquaculture sector in Ghana has experienced tremendous growth—driven mainly by large-scale cage aquaculture. Pond aquaculture, traditionally extensive and with limited external inputs, has been transforming over the same period. Farm profitability was wide-ranging, between...
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| author | Ragasa, Catherine Agyakwah, Seth K. Asmah, Ruby Mensah, Emmanuel Amewu, Sena Oyih, Matthew |
| author_browse | Agyakwah, Seth K. Amewu, Sena Asmah, Ruby Mensah, Emmanuel Oyih, Matthew Ragasa, Catherine |
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| description | Over the past decade, the aquaculture sector in Ghana has experienced tremendous growth—driven mainly by large-scale cage aquaculture. Pond aquaculture, traditionally extensive and with limited external inputs, has been transforming over the same period. Farm profitability was wide-ranging, between −12.00 and 46.00 Ghanaian cedi (GHC) per square meter (m2), with an average of GHC 8.82/m2 for farmers active in 2019. Despite wide variability in production and profits, the majority of farmers experienced positive profits—on average, GHC 3.24 per kilogram of tilapia produced, or a 27% profit margin. Farmers who adopted good aquaculture practices and intensified their production have high productivity and positive profits. Nonetheless, the cost to produce 1 kg of tilapia in Ghana (roughly US$1.51 on average) was much higher than in other major tilapia-producing countries (averaging roughly US$0.78 to 1.29). COVID crisis further affected fish farmers: 54% experienced difficulties in accessing inputs, 56% experienced difficulties selling their fish, and farmgate fish prices went down in April–August, although slowly bounced back by end of 2020. Improving the competitiveness and resilience of Ghanaian tilapia sector will require improved seed, increased adoption of good management practices, lower-cost quality feed, and enabling policies and regulations. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1281972025-11-12T04:48:29Z Accelerating pond aquaculture development and resilience beyond COVID: Ensuring food and jobs in Ghana Ragasa, Catherine Agyakwah, Seth K. Asmah, Ruby Mensah, Emmanuel Amewu, Sena Oyih, Matthew profitability covid-19 fish rural livelihoods pond aquaculture ponds employment capacity development aquaculture livelihoods rural areas resilience Over the past decade, the aquaculture sector in Ghana has experienced tremendous growth—driven mainly by large-scale cage aquaculture. Pond aquaculture, traditionally extensive and with limited external inputs, has been transforming over the same period. Farm profitability was wide-ranging, between −12.00 and 46.00 Ghanaian cedi (GHC) per square meter (m2), with an average of GHC 8.82/m2 for farmers active in 2019. Despite wide variability in production and profits, the majority of farmers experienced positive profits—on average, GHC 3.24 per kilogram of tilapia produced, or a 27% profit margin. Farmers who adopted good aquaculture practices and intensified their production have high productivity and positive profits. Nonetheless, the cost to produce 1 kg of tilapia in Ghana (roughly US$1.51 on average) was much higher than in other major tilapia-producing countries (averaging roughly US$0.78 to 1.29). COVID crisis further affected fish farmers: 54% experienced difficulties in accessing inputs, 56% experienced difficulties selling their fish, and farmgate fish prices went down in April–August, although slowly bounced back by end of 2020. Improving the competitiveness and resilience of Ghanaian tilapia sector will require improved seed, increased adoption of good management practices, lower-cost quality feed, and enabling policies and regulations. 2022-01 2023-01-25T13:45:43Z 2023-01-25T13:45:43Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128197 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133804 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133772 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134374 https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00467-1 Open Access application/pdf Elsevier Catherine Ragasa, Seth Agyakwah, Ruby Asmah, Emmanuel Mensah, Sena Amewu, Matthew Oyih. (30/1/2022). Accelerating pond aquaculture development and resilience beyond COVID: Ensuring food and jobs in Ghana. Aquaculture, 547. |
| spellingShingle | profitability covid-19 fish rural livelihoods pond aquaculture ponds employment capacity development aquaculture livelihoods rural areas resilience Ragasa, Catherine Agyakwah, Seth K. Asmah, Ruby Mensah, Emmanuel Amewu, Sena Oyih, Matthew Accelerating pond aquaculture development and resilience beyond COVID: Ensuring food and jobs in Ghana |
| title | Accelerating pond aquaculture development and resilience beyond COVID: Ensuring food and jobs in Ghana |
| title_full | Accelerating pond aquaculture development and resilience beyond COVID: Ensuring food and jobs in Ghana |
| title_fullStr | Accelerating pond aquaculture development and resilience beyond COVID: Ensuring food and jobs in Ghana |
| title_full_unstemmed | Accelerating pond aquaculture development and resilience beyond COVID: Ensuring food and jobs in Ghana |
| title_short | Accelerating pond aquaculture development and resilience beyond COVID: Ensuring food and jobs in Ghana |
| title_sort | accelerating pond aquaculture development and resilience beyond covid ensuring food and jobs in ghana |
| topic | profitability covid-19 fish rural livelihoods pond aquaculture ponds employment capacity development aquaculture livelihoods rural areas resilience |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128197 |
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