The Delta state Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Honourable Chika Ossai, has said that the state has enormous resources to effectively run fish farms that will service the whole of West África.
Hon Chika Ossai stated this in Asaba when he met with the inter-ministerial committee on Fish Feed Mill and fish feed mill investors.
The Commissioner, who disclosed that the Okowa administration would continue to make the state investor friendly, pointed out that four fish feed mills had been established in the three senatorial districts of the state under a Public Private partnership arrangement.
He noted that the state was located in the coastal region of southern Nigeria with sixty percent land space and forty percent water which was the basic reason why fish farming was a flourishing occupation for youths in the state.
Honourable Chika Ossai added that the neighbouring states of Anambra, Enugu, Imo and Edo depended on Delta for fish supply.
While assuring the investors that Delta state had the raw materials for the production of fish feed, the Commissioner disclosed that the Ika and Uvwie fish feed mills had already been set up in Ika North East and Ekpan in Uvwie local government area, while the equipment for the two other mills were still in the warehouses in Asaba and warri.
The leader of the investors’ team, Mr Azuka Ayam, said they were in the state to fully analyse fish farming in the state with a view to investing in the already established fish feed mills in the state.
Mr Ayam said when completed the project would not only provide jobs for the teeming youths in the state, but also make the state the hub of fish production.
The team later visited the Camp 74 Fish Farm cluster in Anwai.
The meeting was attended by the Chief Economic Adviser to the Governor, Dr Kingsley Emu and the Chief Job creation Officer, Professor Eric Eboh.
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