Official: Ghana on track to produce 100,000 tons of farmed fish

Ghana's Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development said the country is on course to achieve its ambitious goal of producing 100,000 metric tons of farmed fish in the next couple of years, reported Ghana Web.

Benita Sena Okity-Duah, Ghana's deputy minister of fisheries and aquaculture development, said at the Ghana Partnership Forum organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Netherlands Development Organization in Tamale aquaculture production trends in the country had increased over the past few years.

This testified that the country had the potential to improve her current fish farming output to make even greater contributions to global and national fish requirements, she said.

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