He explained that current fish production stood at 0.8 million tons, while the demand was 2.7 million tons, giving a deficit of 1.9 million tons.
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Malam Amadu Na-Ai said trading had resumed fully at the two markets after they were closed down in the past three years due to the Boko Haram insurgency.
In an opinion he wrote and distributed to some media outlets on Tuesday, a retired banker and now a fish farmer and importer in Niger State, Malam Zakari A. Usman, praised as “noble” the objective of government aimed at “saving foreign exchange and promoting local farming,” but warned that “an outright ban will have profound consequences for the people, who will be abruptly denied their sole source of protein
Adesina said that the Federal Government had mapped out strategies to increase fish production in the country this year