Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Akinwumi Adesina, says the Federal Government may soon place a total ban on the importation of fish and other aquatic consumables.
Adesina said this in Ado-Ekiti at the launch of the Special Growth Enhancement Support (GES) scheme for Fisheries and Aquaculture value chain.
He, however, said that the ban would be imposed, only if arrangements being put in place by the government to that effect worked as planned.
The minister, represented at the occasion by the Federal Director of Fisheries, Foluke Areola, stressed that Nigeria had no business importing fish given its huge natural and renewable resources.
He said it was in view of this that the ministry was promoting increased fish production through the Aquaculture Value Chain.
This is in pursuance of the goal of the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA), he said
Adesina said the Aquaculture Value Chain, under the four- year implementation plan, would increase the annual production of fingerlings in the country by 1.25 billion tonnes.
He said it would also produce 400,000 tonnes of fish feed, generate additional 250,000 tonnes of table fish and 100,000 tonnes of Value Added fish products.
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