Integrated agriculture aquaculture combines at least three agricultural enterprises with aquaculture as its integral part. The integration of agriculture and aquaculture creates a system that produces nutritious food with modest labour demand and also sustains farm productivity year round even through droughts. AQZ has facilitated adoption of small livestock production, poultry, fish production, apiculture and horticulture not only as food security interventions but also as income generating projects.
The integrated agriculture aquaculture system design is founded on sustainability and synergetic effects where by products from one component of the system become inputs on the other component. Waste from poultry is used to fertilise water in the ponds for the effective growth of algae which is supplementary feed for the fish. The fertilised water which is nutrient rich is also used to water the garden while the bees on the apiculture component will get water from the ponds and nectar from the garden crops.
