Training on Quality Data Reporting for the Extension Agents and M&E Officers under USAID MARKETS II Programme

A two days training was put together for TASK staff and Delta/Edo ADP Extension Agents (EAs) assigned to USAID MARKETS II Aquaculture at the intervention areas of Delta/Edo on sustainability plan of MARKETS II and quality data reporting   for 2016 activities. Training package includes: MARKETS II M&E reporting system and requirement Data generation and capturing […]

Successful Visitation of Monitoring Team to Aquaculture farmer Groups in Edo and Delta States

Based on random selection, USAID MARKETS II chose 20 aquaculture farmers groups in Edo and Delta for validation exercise, which lasted for 6 days. It started from 19th-24th of September 2016.. Criteria for the group validation exercise for MARKETS II USAID includes the following for sighting : Presence of group members during validation Group registration […]

Writing A Business Plan, A Simple Guide

Your business plan should tell a convincing and compelling story about your business, explaining who, what, when, where, how and why. Your plan should be cleared and focus, not about the number of pages or style of the cover or designing. Your plan should define specific business objectives and goals with general parameters to guide […]

USAID/MARKETS II Conducted Farmers Wet-Field Day in Ondo State

Farmers wet-field demonstration day was conducted by TASK in Ondo state on 23rd Aug. 2016 in Owo and Ondo, and on 26th in Okitipupa and Igbekebo. The attendance was very impressive and the Southern Regional Officer of MARKETS II, Kayode Faleti, Aquaculture Specialist Saeed Lawal were in attendance at the programme. Farmers across the state […]

Building a Successful Catfish Farming Business

Building a Successful Catfish Farming Business

Fish farming consists of two major subdivisions, which could either be operated separately or as together as an integrated practice. The two subdivisions are the nursery pond operation and the grow-out pond operation. The nursery operation is the basis for the grow-out operation and as such it cannot be operated without the nursery. The nursery […]

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Even Though MARKETS II Did Not Give Me Money, It Gave Me A Network of Friends That Money Cannot Buy

These are the exact words of Mr Olanrewaju Ajibade, one of the 1000 fish farmers networked into USAID/MARKETS II Aquaculture in Oyo State in the year 2015. What prompted that statement was the help he received from another member of the group he belonged to in the project. His farm had been affected by flood […]