The Director-General of the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD) Dr. Tariq ibn Musa al-Zadjali said that the Sudan capabilities enable it to play a leading role in the field of aquaculture in the Arab world due to availability of surface water, water pools and groundwater.
Dr. al-Zadjali called, in a statement to SUNA, to the preparation of strategy and development of pioneering projects in the field of aquaculture, pointing out that the organization has paid special attention to the Arab Program of Fish Farming in fresh water to be based in Sudan through drafting Arab strategy for aquaculture, hoping that Arab League to adopt it, revealing that AOAD human built capacities of Arab cadres from different countries and implemented a pioneering project for intensive open-system fish farming in Lebanon at Litany River, besides provision of technical consulting to Arab states in this regard.
The AOAD Director referred to the fish farming in fresh water at Al-Shajara area, Khartoum in Sudan on the White Nile in an area of up to 60 acres, explaining that the work has now reached an advanced stage and could begin to run the first phase in a month or two months, stressed that the project contributes to the increase of fish production in Sudan in the range of 25,000 tons of fish a year, pointing to the possibility of exporting part of it for its high specifications to support the Sudan national economy, revealing that the organization establishes a training center for intensive fish farming through closed system and another model with an Open system Sudan.

Source: SUNA