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Nigeria Co-Operative Women Alliance African Catfish Fingerling Production Workshop

The Nigeria Co-operative Women Alliance (NICOWA) empowers women in Nigeria by focusing on self-reliance through the benefits of local women's co-peratives, but tied together into a national organization with more than 100,000 members. One of these efforts is to promote home-based fish production for food and income. African mud catfish, Clarias gariepinus, is an excellent choice for this as an accessory breathing organ allows them to use atmospheric oxygen and many fish can be raised in a very small area. However, catfish don't want to spawn under these conditions so the women have had to rely in the past on fingerling producers who generally target those who will buy in larger quantities the the women need. The need for a workshop to teach the women how to produce the fingerlings they need themselves was met my the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Farmer-to-Farmer program through Winrock International which contacted me, as a fish culture volunteer, to conduct the workshop in September 2015. These are pictures from that workshop where more than 120 NICOWA chapters were represented.
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Some of the NICOWA members greeting me at the Uyo Airport
Some of the NICOWA members greeting me at the Uyo Airport
Nigeria - With NICOWA women at the Uyo Airport, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
Nigeria - With NICOWA women at the Uyo Airport, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
A small view of some of the workshop participants at Nature Farms.
A small view of some of the workshop participants at Nature Farms.
Me with a few chapter participants
Me with a few chapter participants
A few of the NICOWA chapter leaders.
A few of the NICOWA chapter leaders.
Some of the chapter leaders in the NICOWA polo shirts and caps
Some of the chapter leaders in the NICOWA polo shirts and caps
More NICOWA chapter leaders in traditional dress that promotes NICOWA
More NICOWA chapter leaders in traditional dress that promotes NICOWA
A chapter leader whose smile I found infectious; it was wonderful being around people like this.
A chapter leader whose smile I found infectious; it was wonderful being around people like this.
Injecting hormones or pituitaries into female catfish with Dorah.
Injecting hormones or pituitaries into female catfish with Dorah.
Patricia and Princess prepare to remove the testes from a male catfish
Patricia and Princess prepare to remove the testes from a male catfish
Ndah Blessing, my Winrock counterpart
Ndah Blessing, my Winrock counterpart
Concrete fish holding tanks
Concrete fish holding tanks
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