Catfish farming in tarpaulin ponds

Catfish farming in tarpaulin ponds means growing juveniles to table size over about five to six months, in ponds that are cheaper than concrete and can be moved. Your buyers are fish sellers, fish smokers, pepper-soup joints and restaurants. Catfish is eaten across the country, fresh, smoked and in pepper soup, so a farmer who can supply good sizes on time rarely struggles to find interest.

You earn on the gap between your feed and stock costs and the price per kilo at harvest. Feed is most of the cost, so survival and how well the fish turn feed into weight decide your profit. Many first-timers reach harvest before they have buyers, or fall behind on water changes and lose fish. It suits someone with a reliable water source, an hour or two each day and the patience to wait for the first harvest.