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.

Project No：TT-310-2022-007

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 2023, the following activities were implemented: 

1. A new aquatic breeding center has been established, and the first phase of the project has entered the completion acceptance stage.

2. Breed 643 local Mozambique tilapia fingerlings.

3. Successfully introduced 2 tilapia species.

4. Develop low-cost alternative feed formulas.

5. Provide internship courses for 2 students from the University of Eswatini.

6. Conduct 5 training courses on tilapia breeding

7. Capacity building 20 cooperating unit promoters and technical staff, and conducting 2 advanced training classes.

8. Collect questionnaire survey data from 20 farmers and establish a database.

Project Contact：Wang,Yen-Chih

Phone：+886-2-2888-6054

E-mail：y.j.wang@icdf.org.tw

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