Fish Farming in Northern Peru (by Bruce Peru ngo and Agenda SOS International, inc.)
A project to raise and distrubute tonnes of protien to feed poor children and abandoned mothers in Northern Peru
operated: 2002 - 2003

Fish farm Paijan, Northern Peru
First of four harvests
Second of four harvests
Third of four harvests
Fourth of four harvests
Distributing
fish to
Mothers Clubs
Preparing to serve our fish
Project logo

Outline of Project

1.- Name of Executor organization:

Non-profit association, "Bruce Perú ngo" (part of Agenda SOS International, Inc)

Title of Project:

Tilapias: Pond Culture, Paijan, Peru

2.- Justification of project:

In the north central part of Peru (the department of Libertad), this association has undertaken the feeding, clothing and education of nearly 3,000 poor children and the retraining and assistance of nearly 1,000 abandoned mothers. We undertook this responsibility only after receiving assurances from the Government that our project would be a recipient of the food distributions the Ministry of Women (PRONA) regularly provides to organizations serving such women and children. After a year of operating our program with our own resources (we now have 15 soup kitchens) we have not received any help from PRONA, though PRONA continues to assure us that we will soon begin receiving food staples from them. In the meantime the cost of buying our own ingredients has risen almost 20% over the year and we are now obliged to suspend service in a number of the kitchens, opening only three days in the week. With this in mind we are beginning to develop alternative affordable sources of food supplies. Raising our own fish in a reservoir in Paijan is the first such project.

 

3.- Effects of the project:

The reservoir is capable of producing 25 tons of white fish meat per year. Sixteen tons will be donated to the 15 soup kitchens, this amounts to roughly half of the annual protein requirement of thes kitchens. The project also will provide an opportunity to train some of the mothers and children in fish farming and the business of marketing the nine tons of fish which will be sold in order to sustain the project.

 

4.- Activities involved in and materials required for project:

The project requires draining, cleaning and refilling the reservoir every 4 months, feeding the fish every day and guarding the reservoir. It requires harvesting the fish in the fourth month, and trasnsporting the harvested fish to a freezer unit, and then delivering it from the freezer unit to the soup kitchens and markets on a regular basis.

The materials required are: the reservoir ( a concrete lined lake 50 X 60 meters and 2 meters deep, with drainage and pumping equipment), buckets and implements for feeding and tending the fish, nets and containers for harvesting the fish. The use of a vehicle (probably a hired truck, then taxis) to deliver harvested fish from reservoir to freezer unit, and thence to mothers clubs abnd market.

 

5.- Method of execution

  1. Proposed participants

    It is our intention to work together with other ONGs and persons to realize this project:

    Bruce Perú ( ong) : Bruce Thornton

    Sra. Julia Larco Castro & family: Owner of reservior

  2. Qualifications of management & technical participants

This includes those who will be working on the project at the reservoir in Paijan.

 

Management &Technical team:

Professional formation

Experience

function

Dedicatcion

Person with Tilapia farming experience

> 2 years

On site manager

Part time

Administration

> 5 years

Accountancy/admin.

Part time

Person with general agricultural experience

> 5 years

Consultant

Part time

Person with general business experience

> 20 years

Project coordinator

Part time

On site laborer

>2 years

Laborer

Part time

       

6.- Location

Departament : La Libertad

Province

Reservoir: Paijan

Freezer Unit/process plant: Esperanza

Administration: Trujillo

7.- Duration

In the pilot stage: 1 year (3 harvests)

8.- Beneficiaries of project

Direct : The 15 mothers clubs & Bruce Peru (S.O.S. Peru)

Indirect : The children and abandoned mothers of Trujillo

9.- Assumptions The "El Nino" phenominen would continue to make Peru's regular ocean fish stocks rare, driving the price of fish out of reach of poor Peruvians, and thus depriving them of one of their major sources of protein..

I . Investment:

I.1 Employees:

Part time laborer/guard

$685

annual

     
     

Total :US $ 685

I.2 Assetss:

* one time pourchases

Name

Quantity

Cost (US $)

Total (US $)

 

bucket

5

2

10

 

netting

50m X 3m

400

400

 

Long rake

2

10

20

 

shovel

2

10

20

 

gloves

8

8

64

 

Plastic fish crates

200

6

1200

 

Fingerling containers

10

5

50

 

Total Inversión de Bienes US $ 1,764

2 Operating cost :

Name

Monthlyl US $

4 months

US $

1 year US $

     

Remuneration

           

Laborer

57

228

685

     

Resources

           

Water

Fingerlings

Feed

 

 

150

211

100

450

663

300

     

Servicios

           

transport *

 

200

600

     

harvesting

storage (freezer)

Administrative & misc.

 

 

50

100

200

300

300

600

900

   

 

$ 107 $ 1,489 $ 4,498

Total cost (including investment): $ 6,262

** Note: This represents 1/4 of total initial equipment investment (amortized over two years).