Shem Oirere is a Kenyan journalist who previously worked for daily newspapers as a general news correspondent, business reporter and sub-editor before turning to full-time freelancing. For the more than 20 years, he has covered various sectors of Africa’s economy including agriculture, food processing, and maritime industries. A graduate of the University of South Africa, he has traveled within and outside Africa covering various industry events that have a bearing on the continent’s economy on behalf of different international consumer and trade publications. He currently lives in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Accra, Ghana-based aquaculture company Tropo Farms plans to incrementally increase its annual fish output to 30,000 metric tons (MT) over the next five years, pursuing external investments in production equipment and processing to do so.
Before pursuing investment, the company began auditing its internal processes, aiming to make them as efficient as possible before turning externally for growth. That process of streamlining production
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A recently launched fish welfare project for small-scale tilapia producers in Egypt is aiming to reduce fish mortality rates by up to 10 percent, shrink production costs, and ensure products meet the standards of key export markets.
The Egypt Tilapia Welfare project, spearheaded by Glasgow, Scotland-based Ethical Seafood Research (ESR) with the support of Oxford, England-based FAI Farms, is focused on improving the production practices of
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