Project Name：Eswatini Aquaculture Project

Project status：Projects in Operation

Cooperating Country：Africa, Kingdom of Eswatini

Project Description：

Although the Kingdom of Eswatini is a landlocked country, it boasts abundant river resources. However, the local aquaculture industry lacks the necessary resource, and nearly 90% of its aquatic products are imported. Eswatini’s aquaculture consists of small family operations. Development bottlenecks include a lack of steady local fry supply, high cost of imported fish feed, and lack of technical training resulting in low production efficiency. In order to stimulate local aquaculture industry, the Eswatini Ministry of Agriculture hopes to develop fry reproduction techniques through this project to stabilize the market demand for fry and help fish farmers to improve their techniques, increase their income, and stabilize the domestic prices, thereby laying a firm foundation for Eswatini’s aquaculture industry.

The project’s primary goal is to introduce tilapia fry breeding and aquaculture technique and promotional system including: 1. Establishing an aquatic product breeding and aquaculture center to pave way for the tilapia fry breeding and aquaculture system and SOP in a bid to improve fry quality and production; 2. Train Eswatinian aquaculture technical staff to bolster their aquaculture technology and knowledge; 3. Fish farmer technical training and organizational guidance.

Region：Africa

Implementation Start Date：2021-10-01

Implementation End Date：2025-12-31

Project Objectives：Establish a tilapia aquaculture system to improve the production performance of fish farmers. At the end of the project, the production of the fish farmers is expected to be increased by 100% per square meter.

Executing Agency：

Taiwan Technical Mission in the Kingdom of Eswatini / Ministry of Agriculture, Kingdom of Eswatini

Current Progress：

By the end of December 2024, the following activities were implemented:

1. Competed establishing the first aquatic breeding center in Eswatini.

2. Successfully introduced 2 tilapia species.

3. Breed a total of 2,117 broodfishes, including Red tilapia, Blue tilapia, and local Mozambique tilapia.

4. Develop low-cost alternative feed formulas, and conduct trials with selected farmers for promotion.

5. Provide internship courses for 4 students from the University of Eswatini.

6. Conduct 17 training courses on tilapia breeding

7. Capacity building 124 promoters and technicians of Ministry of Agriculture staff, and conduct 6 advanced training courses.

8. Establish a database with collection questionnaire survey data from 90 farmers.

Project Contact：Gillian Lin

Phone：+886-2-2888-6043

E-mail：ch.lin@icdf.org.tw

Mission：Taiwan Technical Mission in the Kingdom of Eswatini (Former Swaziland)