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Farm
Phased rollout of floating cage rafts, initially stocked with imported juveniles and feed.
Senegal River Dagana Poissons du Désert
A farm today.A value chain tomorrow.
On the Senegal River, NAFA is building an integrated African catfish value chain (floating-cage farming, feed, hatchery and processing) to deliver healthy, nutritious, locally produced fish while creating jobs across the valley.
01 / Our project
Produce locally. Build to last.
NAFA is taking over and carrying forward the fish farming project, both industrial and community-based, launched in 2015 by West Africa Agro Projects (WAAP) on the Senegal River. Located in Kharé, in the commune of Bokhol (Dagana department), upstream of Richard Toll, the project will ultimately bring together a floating-cage farm, a hatchery, a fish feed mill and a processing plant.
We build on more than ten years of site studies, technical design and partnerships. Drawing on that groundwork, we have reshaped the project into a phased five-year program, designed to start fast and grow step by step.
At every phase, we produce locally what we used to import.
2015
First studies at the Kharé site
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Integrated links: farm, feed, hatchery, processing
3 000 t
Annual capacity of the feed mill
2030
Full value chain operational
02 / The value chain
From fingerling to plate-size fish
Four links built one after the other, all the way to plate-size fish: 1 to 1.3 kg, a single meal portion.
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Feed
Construction of a floating feed mill with a capacity of 3 000 tonnes a year, to secure supply and keep costs under control.
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Hatchery
Commissioning of a modern hatchery to produce our own fry and tighten biological and health control.
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Processing
Building a processing plant to add value to the fish, extend its shelf life and cut post-harvest losses.
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03 / Poissons du Désert
The Poissons du Désert range
Raised on the Senegal River, at the gateway to the Sahara, Poissons du Désert is the NAFA range: species selected for their hardiness, their nutritional value and their fit with the valley's climate.
SPECIES 01
African catfish
We have made Clarias gariepinus our specialty for its hardiness, its ease of farming and above all its nutritional richness, in a region where health services are fighting malnutrition.
Fresh
From 2026
Fillets
2030
Salt-dried
2030
Smoked
2030
SPECIES 02
Barramundi
Coming soonA white-fleshed fish in high demand from restaurants and export markets, barramundi will be the next species in the range.
04 / Impact
Aquaculture that creates value where it operates
Our ambition is to train local fishing families in cage farming and, over time, enable them to run their own units on our shared infrastructure: fry, feed, processing and sales.
01
Local food supply
A steady supply of fish, close to markets, complementing natural resources under pressure.
02
Jobs and skills
Production, animal feed, maintenance, logistics, processing, quality control and sales.
03
Producer ecosystem
Over time, quality juveniles and suitable feed made available to partner producers across the region.
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Local processing
Keeping value in the region through smoking, drying, preservation and distribution.
Project rendering05 / Community development
One raft per family.
Each partner fishing family runs its own raft of 7 galvanized steel cages, anchored in the middle of the river. NAFA supplies the fingerlings, the feed and technical support, then buys back, processes and markets the harvest.
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Equip
One raft of 7 cages per family, installed and anchored by NAFA.
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Raise
The family feeds and monitors its fish, supported by our technicians.
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Add value
NAFA buys the harvest, processes it and sells it.
- cages per raft
- 7
- per cage
- ≈ 24 m³
- family per raft
- 1
06 / Roadmap
2026 – 2030: building a value chain, step by step
2026
In progressLaunch production
Rafts and floating cages, first juveniles, farming protocols, first sales.
2027
UpcomingScale up
Higher volumes, optimized feeding, commercial development.
2028
UpcomingProduce our own feed
Floating feed mill, 3 000 tonnes a year.
2029
UpcomingDevelop the hatchery
Local production of quality juveniles.
2030
UpcomingProcess and add value
Processing plant: prepared fish, fillets, smoked, salt-dried.
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A farm today.A value chain tomorrow.
