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2013 – FIRST FISH POND IN PATIKO

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

In December 2012, a group of volunteers from Bologna funded with a loan the costruction of a

fish farm in a pond located in the lands of the ugandan association Dero Farmers Association, the

Figure 1 shows the situation of the pond before the starting of the cleaning and excavation works

in December 2012.

Farmed fish are tilapia, a fish typical of the area and that is perfectly suited to live in ponds and it

is good to eat. Because at the momenti there are few fish farms near Gulu it’s hard to find fresh

fish at the market so they will be sold easily and will be also useful to integrate the diet of the

local population.

The maintenance of ponds and farm management are carried out by Dero Farmers Association

under the coordination and supervision of Jacob Awachango.

Figure 1: Fish pond situation before the project activities

PARTNER

The Dero Farmers Association was founded in 2008 and legally registered in 2009. The

association is located 32 km from the town of Gulu in the Gulu district, Aswa County, Sub

County Patiko, Kal Parish, and Omoti Sub Parish.

The association carries out agricultural activities, such as the cultivations of corn, soybeans and

sunflower seeds; in January 2013, the Dero Farmers Association started a project of fish farming

in a pond built with the contribution of Pace Adesso - Peace Now. With these activities, the

association supports the most vulnerable people in the community, such as the elderly and

orphans, and also carries out activities to prevent the spread of HIV and other dangerous

diseases.

The association is currently composed of 20 members as follows:

15 men including 13 young people (17 – 35 years) and 2 seniors (over 55 years)

5 women including 2 young people (17 – 35 years) and 3 seniors (over 55 years)



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LOCALIZATION OF THE PROJECT

The project is implemented 32 km from Gulu town, in Gulu District, County Aswa, Sub County

Patiko, Kal Parish, Omoti Sub Parish.

IMPLEMENTATION PERIOD

1 December 2012 - 1 December 2013: period in which it was buit the pond and completed the

first fishing.

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT

The main purpose of the project is to provide jobs for young people in order to help them to

develop new technical and organizational skills. In addition, the sale of fish can increase profits

by diversifying investments compared to only agricultural activity and is important for the

beneficiaries of the project to integrate their meals with a constant supply of fish meat.

DIRECT PROJECT IMPLEMENTERS

- JACOB AWACHANGO, Dero Farmers Association of Gulu: project manager in Uganda;

- GIOVANNI BERTI, Pace Adesso - Peace Now ONLUS Italy: project manager in Italy;

- COLLINS OKELLO, Professor at Gulu University (Uganda): consultant for the project;

- CECILIA PALMESE, Pace Adesso - Peace Now ONLUS Italy: responsible for

communication and updating of blog site.

MONITORING ACTIVITY

The Dero Farmers Associations periodically provide photos to show the development of the fish

farm activity. The photos are published in the internet site of Pace Adesso – Peace Now.

Updates and comments have also been posted on a blog site in order to inform step by step about

the development of the project and create a debate between other people involved in this kind of

projects.

The Prof. Collins Okello of Gulu University provided consulting for the setting up and the

development of the project activities.



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LIST OF PROJECT COSTS IN THE 2013

The following table shows the main costs incurred in the 2013 for the first fish farm project:

ACTIVITY ITEM N°

UNIT

COST

[EURO]

TOTAL

[EURO] PERIOD STATUS

NAME OF

SUPPLIER/SELLER

Consultancy

hire

Consultancy to offer

training on fish

farming for three

days 3 9.1 27 Dec 2012 Completed

Mr.Sam Lakony

Bachelors in Water

rewources and fisheries

Preparation of

the pond

(20m x 20m)

Labour for five days 5 21.2 106 Completed

Feeding 15 1.1 16 Dec 2012 Completed Local Market

Hoes 12 2.7 33 Dec 2012 Completed

Coo Cere hard are

dealers

Fork hoes 5 3.6 18 Dec 2012 Completed

Slashers 5 1.4 7 Dec 2012 Completed

Rakes 4 1.2 5 Dec 2012 Completed

Fingerlings

Fingerlings 1'000 0.2 242 Jan 2013 Completed

Kizito-Paja Parish-

Patiko s/c

Vehicle hire for

transport 1 36.4 36 Jan 2013 Completed

Bakers transport

company ltd

Control fingerlings

cut fish 100 0.2 18 Jan 2013

Not

completed

Feeds

Maize Brand 1000 0.2 242 Jan 2013 Completed

Opit and sons millers

vendors

Sun flower cakes 500 0.2 76 Jan 2013 Completed

Tourist and sons

refineries

Rice brand 300 0.1 23 Jan 2013 Completed Peyero millers

Small fish grounded

(Lacede) 800 0.2 145 Jan 2013 Completed

Akello Janet Gulu Main

mrkt

Sesebania seedlings 10 1.1 11 Jan 2013

Not

completed

Colliandria

seedlings 10 1.1 11 Jan 2013

Not

completed

Soya beans 500 0.5 242 Jan 2013 Completed

Odong Jacson-

Orapwoyo market

Fence

Poles 100 0.4 36 Dec 2012

Dero

Farmers

Babed wires roles 2 37.9 76 Dec 2012 Completed

Coo Cere hard are

dealers

Labour for three 10 24.2 242 Dec 2012 Dero



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days Farmers

Assorted nails 3 3.6 11 Dec 2012 Completed

Coo Cere hard are

dealers

Small Gate 1 24.2 24 Dec 2012 Completed

T. Ayaa welding

Workshop

Total cost 1'331

Table 1: List of fish pond project costs in the 2013, Costs highlighted in yellow have been

catered for by the association or some are not carried out

PROJECT INCOMES IN THE YEAR 2013

In the Table 2 is shown the list of Dero Farmers Association for the year 2013: the 60% of the

income are constituted by the profits of the fish pond activity.

Income sources for the year 2013

[Euro]

Sale of fish 394

Sales of agricultural product 273

Annual membership contributions 61

TOTAL 727

Table 2: List of the Dero Farmers Association income in the 2013



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DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT

14 December 2012

Pace Adesso – Peace Now sent a wire transfer of 1200 euro to the Dero Farmers Association.

2 January 2013

Dero Farmers Association received the wire transfer of 1200 euro.

10 January 2013

The grass and trees over the area have been cleared by the youths. The next step is to carry out

excavation to widen and shape the ponds. Excavation is done manually, and the youths are

showing commitment for the job (Figure 2).

Figure 2: Preparation of the pond area

22 January 2013

The excavation of the pond is proceeding. There are some difficulties caused by the discovery of

poisonous snakes in the ground, but the workers don't stop their activity. Final pond dimension is

expected to be about 15m wide and 30m long. (Figure 3).

Figure 3: Excavation works of the pond



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6 March 2013

The work will be finished in this weekend with the compete fencing of the pond. Now it will be

contacted a technical person to check the quality of the Tilapia fingerlings that have to be bought

and introduced in the pond.

19 April 2013

It was completed the waterproofing job of the pond that is now ready to be filled with water.

Now with the help of a consultant the Dero Farmers Association staff is choosing the fingerlings

that will be introduced in the pond. It was place a cartel which describes the collaboration project

between the Dero Farmers Association and Peace Now (Figure 4).

Figure 4: Cartel at the fish pond

25 April 2013

Conference at LACME Cooperative of Sant’Antonio di Medicina (Bologna - Italy) with Prof.

Collins Okello of the Gulu University speaking about the biofuels and bioenergy systems in

Uganda and about the Fish Farm project (Figure 5).

Figure 5: Conference of Prof. Collins Okello in Medicina (Bologna – Italy)



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10 June 2013

The pond now is filled with water and the fingerlings of Tilapia have been put inside. The

agronomist of S. Isidoro farm Valerio Rizzo visited the fish farm and he remained very

impressed for the development of the fish pond project (Figure 6).

a b

Figure 6: a) Feeding fish activity; b) Jacob Awachango and Valerio Rizzo in front of the fish

pond

13 August 2013

After three days of uninterrupted rain the pond has flooded and that caused the death of many 0.5

kg size fishes (Figure 7).

Figure 7: Dead fishes after the flood

20 August 2013

The workers of the pond immediately repaired the walls damaged by the water. In the pond

continues the breeding of the fish and fingerlings remained in order to be fished in September

(Figure 8).



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Figure 8: Pond repaired after the flood

12 October 2013

100 kg of fish have been sold to local schools that used them for the children's lunch. The sales

price amounted to 5,000 Ugx per kg.

Figure 9: Fishing operations in the pond

3 November 2013

On Sunday 3 November a group of three volunteers of Pace Adesso – Peace Now visited the

pond in Patiko to see the project development. They were impressed by the great work done by

the workers of Dero Farmers Association and they thanks for the excellent just fished fish that

they ate for lunch!



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Figure 10: Visit of three Italian volunteers at the fish pond (November 2013)



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2014 – SECOND FISH POND AND IMPROVING OF THE

ACTIVITIES IN PATIKO

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

For the year 2014 Dero Farmers Association has planned to improve the activities with the

following projects:

IMPROVE THE FIRST FISH POND AND BUILD A SECOND POND: in the beginning of

2014 improve the production of the first fish pond and build a second pond to expand the

fish production activities. The second pond will improve the sustainability levels of all the

fish farming activity because some cost will be shared between the two fish ponds and so the

productivity levels will be higher respect the year before (TOTAL COST: 2’351 EURO).

START A SOYA BEAN FARMING ACTIVITY: in the Table 4 are shown the costs for a

plantation of soya bean that can be used to produce the feeding for the fish pond (TOTAL

COST 1’544 EURO)

BUY A GRINDING MACHINE: a grinding machine can be used by the Dero Farmers

Association to process the soya been seeds in order to produce the feed for the fish with a

decrease of almost 40% of the total cost for the feed. This machine will also help in raise

more income through sales of animal feeds, and grinding maize corn for at a fee for other

human consumption since the entire parish has no grinding mill (TOTAL COST: 2’121

EURO).



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ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF THE PROJECTS

Respect the first fish pond project there has been increase in the cost of some items for the

following reasons:

for fingerlings, because it’s necessary to buy a single sex fingerlings which has better quality

than the locally available ones and has better market prices. And so, the prices for the hybrid

fingerlings are much higher than the locally available ones;

there has been increase in the units quantities of the feeds because the hybrid fish have to be

given more and regularly feeds compared to the local fish if the harvesting period to be

shorter and better quality;

there is also the additional cost of 106 euro for the purchase of a fishing net for the Dero

Farmers Association, that may be very useful for harvesting and periodic catching of

predators from the pond.

ACTIVITY ITEM QUANTITY UNIT

COST TOTAL

PERIOD

REQUIRED STATUS

Consultancy hire

Consultancy to offer

training on fish

farming for three

days 3 9.1 27 Dec 2012 Completed

Preparation of the

pond (25m x 40m)

Labour for five days 12 21.2 255

Fishing net 1 106 106

Feeding 40 1.1 44 Dec 2013

Hoes 12 2.7 33 Dec 2013 Availiable

Fork hoes 5 3.6 18 Dec 2013 Availiable

Slashers 5 1.4 7 Dec 2013 Availiable

Rakes 4 1.2 5 Dec 2013 Availiable

Fingerlings

Fingerlings 2000 0.3 576 Feb 2014

Vehicle hire for

transport 2 36.4 73 Feb 2014

Transport to

Entebbe 2 13.6 27 Feb 2014

Feeds

Maize Brand 1200 0.3 364 Jan 2014

Sun flowers cakes 600 0.2 127 Jan 2014

Rice brand 700 0.1 64 Jan 2014

Small fish (Lacede) 800 0.4 291 Jan 2014

Sesebania seedlings 10 1.1 11 Jan 2014

Not

completed

Colliandria

seedlings 10 1.1 11 Jan 2014

Not

completed

Soya beans 500 0.5 242 Jan 2014

Fence Poles 100 0.4 36 Dec 2013

Dero

Farmers



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Babed wires roles 3 37.9 114 Dec 2013

Labour for three

days 10 24.2 242 Dec 2013

Dero

Farmers

Assorted nails 5 3.6 18 Dec 2013

Small gate 1 24.2 24 Dec 2013

Total cost 2'351

Table 3: List of the expected costs in 2014 for the construction of the second fish pond, costs

highlighted in yellow have been catered for by the association or some are not carried out

ACTIVITY ITEM QUANTITY UNIT

COST TOTAL STATUS

Garden preparation

First plouhghing 10 25.8 258

Second ploughing 10 25.8 258

Dishing 10 15.2 152

Bottles of non selective

herbicide 10 7.0 70

Weeding hoes 20 2.7 55

Rakes 4 1.2 5 Availiable

Seeds

Improved seeds from

Agricultural research

organisation (bags of 15kg) 7 4.5 32

Weeding 10 acres 10 21.2 212

Harvesting

50 acres 10 15.2 152

Winowing and other post

harvest handling 45 1.5 68

Bags 80 0.8 61

Tansport 3 54.5 164

Storage facilities 1 60.6 61

Total cost 1'539

Table 4: List of the expected costs in 2014 for the soya been farming activity, costs highlighted

in yellow have been catered for by the association or some are not carried out



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DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT

4 January 2014

Pace Adesso – Peace Now sent a wire transfer of 4400 euro to the Dero Farmers Association.

This funding covers both the fish farming project that the cost of HIV testing and distribution of

drugs against intestinal worms for the children carried out in Patiko in January 2014.

23 January 2014

Dero Farmers Association received the wire transfer of 4400 euro.

25 February 2014

The works for the construction of the second pond are proceeding and now has almost been

completed the excavation.

18 June 2014

The construction of the second pond is completed and has started the fish farming activity.

Figure 11: Young members of Dero Farmers Association working in the realization of the

second fish pond

Figure 12: First pond built in the 2013 and the second fish pond in costruction



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Figure 13: The second fish pond completed

Figure 14: The two fish ponds and the sign placed in front of the pond

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