Business Development Services

AQZ promotes entrepreneurship through linking fish farmers to the input and output markets. AQZ has experience promoting various income generating activities which include but are not limited to indigenous poultry production, beekeeping, horticulture, fruit production in addition to fish production. Most of the aquaculture projects established with AQZ assistance are transformed into profitable business entities through business trainings. AQZ focuses on supporting and transforming farmer producer groups into rural based agro small and medium enterprises that sustainably generate income for the owners. Trainings have also been offered on the formation of internal savings and lending schemes as well as arranging financing and contract farming opportunities for the registered groups among other capacity building initiatives. AQZ also has experience in organizing farmers into groups and register them as cooperatives.