KOABA‘s fish farming project is found in Rubavu District, with the coordinating centre at Nyamyumba Sector at the shores of lake Kivu. The fish ponds were constructed in 2018 with an aim to supply the community with fish, fight against poverty; ignorance and fight diseases by improving local people’s health. The resent demand for fish food in the area has motivated the project to start farming edible insetcs(Black Soldier Flies) .The theme of this project is that Money in every one’s pocket. And priority issue is Unemployment and lack of basic services for the youth and women in Rwanda.
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Current business activity
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Purchasing of the fish fingerlings (baby fish) and fish feed to make the fish ponds operative.
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Planning and designing of other fish ponds in the area
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Purchasing of the materials for constructing the edible insects farms
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Construction of the whole project components: fish food pellets
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Negotiating for possible buyers or markets
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Transferring of edible insects farming knowledge to more youth and women for the creation of employments;
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Start making sales to different buyers
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keep the income to make the project a s[[[ustainable project by starting again and expanding the size of the project to other countries across Africa;
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Mobilize local community, experts and do awareness of the project to more youth and women across Africa;
Evaluating of the whole project and provide report to the funder.
WOMEN’S FIGHT AGAINST HUNGER AND MALNUTRITION ACROSS AFRICA THROUGH EDIBLE INSECTS FARMING AND HUMAN, ANIMAL and FISH FOOD PELLETS
KOABA received a capacity building grant from MINERENA and was able to set up a fish farming in cages. KOABA has identified available markets for fish food pellet products including edible insects and wants to begin processing fish food pellet and expand their product lines. The Cooperative has the opportunity to tap into markets that are greatly undeserved, as is evidenced by the letters of intent they have received from prospective buyers. However, the Cooperative is still constrained primarily by insufficient working capital to purchase raw materials , a lack of infrastructure and equipment as well as transport capabilities.
Problem your proposed concept addresses (250 words
It is widely accepted that by 2050 the world will host 9 billion people. To accomodate this number, current food production will need to almost double. Land is scarce and expanding the area devoted to farming is rarely a viable or sustainable option. Oceans are overfished and climate change and related water shortages could have profound implications for food production. To meet the food and nutrition challenges of today – there are nearly 1 billion chronically hungry people worldwide – and tomorrow, what we eat and how we produce it needs to be re-evaluated.
Fish protein and other fish products are important ingredients in brain development and provision of important animal proteins. Fish is the only cheapest source of animal protein free from cholesterol and calcification. The scarcity of fish has reached an alarming level, when you visit the fish market, people are just lamenting when the refrigerated skeletal fish bones “FISH” is not supplied when they expect it, and how they scramble for it when it arrives is testimony enough of the need and demand for fish. The presence of abundant running water in streams and swamp and already existing ponds are resources with big potential to produce fish food using edible insects which can supply the most parts of Africa. There is plenty of manual labor (unemployed youth and women ) which will be used in excavation and masonry work to build extra fish ponds and edible insects farming there is easy means of transport to the market.
Environmental, Health, Safety & Security Compliance
Edible insects and Fish farming in ponds is environmentally friendly and will not have adverse environmental impact on the ecosystem in the swamp.
The water will circulate freely in the swamps Plants, flowers and trees will be planted on the pond pavements to regulate the aeration in the ponds.
There will not be significant garbage from the fish project; any garbage produced will be deposited in gazette areas.
The project has maintained proper environmental procedures :trees are maintained at the boundaries of the fish pond, grasses are left outside inlet to help in filtering the water entering the pond and there is no use of chemicals.
Solution: Summary of business/venture concept
Summarize what activities your enterprise will undertake under this investment in two sentences.
KOABA will promote growth of edible insects, production of fish food to enhance economic aspects of the communities such that the poor are equipped with life sustaining skills for self reliance.
Location and target market/population
Explain how your enterprise will benefit marginalized, grassroots people.
The market of this project will include both youth, women, interested in edible insect and fish farming and will benefit these individuals and their family members, more than 100,0 00 people. Some of the participants in the project will include fish farmers, sellers, buyers, and workers. Many participants targeted have lived in rural areas for a number of years, but have had limited access to agricultural support, and other government farm aid programs. Some of them may have been left out as a result of lack of land to carry out farming. Due to financial and social constraints, many of the youth, women have not had access to joining vocational institutions and have little means of generating income for their families. Thus this project may pave way to solve these financial and social constraints.
Intended goals, objectives, and impact
Objectives:
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To provide employment to women and youth of Rwanda;
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To increase income and standard of living of KOABA’s members;
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To show that unemployed and uneducated women &young girls are not a problem to the Community of African countries but assets to the community;
To mobilize women and local people to work together for common goals.
Impact:
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To improve the diet of the local community around Rwanda especially those who can not afford to buy meat, milk.
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To effectively use fish pond farming as a method of conserving the wetlands.
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The first clientele groups are the local people in the community who will participate in the Project as consumers and as workers. This clientele group is represented in the project objectives for Goal 1;
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This clientele group is important and essential component of this project. It is expected that significant attitude change will take place in this clientele group.
Rushagara village,
Rubona cell, Nyamyumba Sector,
Rubavu District
