SON Fish Farm Ltd
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SON Fish Farm Ltd is part of the Lake Harvest group and is based on Lake Victoria in Uganda. Established in 2005, SON has successfully completed a pilot project and on-the-job staff training programme and is now expanding to become a large scale tilapia farm. SON currently employs over 50 people and has an experienced start-up management team. Pond construction work began in mid 2005 and the company now has breeding and juvenile ponds at Bugungu Farm near Jinja, small cages in Lake Victoria and manufactures its own feed on site. SON aims to achieve 3,000 tonnes of tilapia production per annum by the end of 2012 and 10,000 tonnes by 2018. The company has a strong emphasis on health and safety, sustainability and community projects.
Promoted by two shareholders, Lake Harvest Group represented by Mr. Patrick Blow, and Greenfields Uganda Ltd (GUL), represented by Mr. Philip Borel respectively, S.O.N. is currently a pilot scale fish farm expected to be mainstreamed after successful implementation into a 2,500 tonnes per annum world class farm. SON’s fish ponds are constructed to the highest standards and the project is currently producing about 500,000 tilapia fry per month, and selling many of these to other commercial fish farmers in the country.
Employee numbers have increased from 1 in 2005 to 20 in 2007 including 7 Diploma holders, 3 graduates, and 2 expatriates, one from Zimbabwe who had ten years’ prior work experience with Lake Harvest Fish Farm. The company is also pioneering the establishment of a large scale tilapia fish hatchery in addition to rearing selectively bred tilapia for its own use and for sale to third party fish farmers.
Uganda was selected as an investment location based on the presence of large unpolluted fresh water bodies including Lake Victoria and over 160 other lakes with abundant stocks of Nile Tilapia, optimum temperatures for aquaculture. The fish sector also fully complies with the EU and USA Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) procedures and veterinary controls.
Promoted by two shareholders, Lake Harvest Group represented by Mr. Patrick Blow, and Greenfields Uganda Ltd (GUL), represented by Mr. Philip Borel respectively, S.O.N. is currently a pilot scale fish farm expected to be mainstreamed after successful implementation into a 2,500 tonnes per annum world class farm. SON’s fish ponds are constructed to the highest standards and the project is currently producing about 500,000 tilapia fry per month, and selling many of these to other commercial fish farmers in the country.
Employee numbers have increased from 1 in 2005 to 20 in 2007 including 7 Diploma holders, 3 graduates, and 2 expatriates, one from Zimbabwe who had ten years’ prior work experience with Lake Harvest Fish Farm. The company is also pioneering the establishment of a large scale tilapia fish hatchery in addition to rearing selectively bred tilapia for its own use and for sale to third party fish farmers.
Uganda was selected as an investment location based on the presence of large unpolluted fresh water bodies including Lake Victoria and over 160 other lakes with abundant stocks of Nile Tilapia, optimum temperatures for aquaculture. The fish sector also fully complies with the EU and USA Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) procedures and veterinary controls.
This has made it easy to launch fish farming operations since strong regional markets exist Having ironed out many of the technical issues of farming tilapia in Uganda, SON is now looking to
expand from a pilot scale into a 2,500t per annum large scale commercial enterprise. http://design.lakeharvest.com/
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Contact Email:
shivaun@lakeharvest.com
Contact Phone:
+256 (0) 332 276 348
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Since :
01-01-2005
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Address1:
PO Box 322 Jinja Uganda
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