WELCOME TO SAGANA
AQUACULTURE CENTRE (SAC) WEBSITE.
Sagana Aquaculture Centre a Government of Kenya
Station under the Ministry of Fisheries Development. www.fisheries.co.ke
VISION:
To be a regional centre of excellence that avail quality warm water
fish seeds and credible aquaculture information.
MISSION:
Facilitating production of adequate warm water fingerlings for farmers
and promoting appropriate fish farming methods through dissemination
of appropriate technologies.
Location.
SAC is located105 kilometers North East of Nairobi, in Sagana Township,
Kirinyaga West District, Central Province of Kenya. The actual site
is 2km outside Sagana Township.
Land Area.
50 hectares plot.
Site description
River Ragati divides SAC land into Eastern and Western portions. The
Eastern part is about 45 hectares almost level and within it are the
major facilities of SAC. The western part (5 hectares) start with a
gentle slope from the river and abruptly changes to a steep slope which
end as a dome shaped hill where senior staff quarters and guest houses
are located.
Local
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SAC collaborates with several agencies. The major institutions that
have been working with SAC are;
1.) Flemish Inter University Council-Katholique University Leuven of
Belgium team up with SAC in 1992 to 1997 assisted in rehabilitation
works at SAC.
2.) Oregon State University through Pond Dynamics/Aquaculture Collaborative
Research Support Program (PD/A CRSP), which assisted with training programs
and rehabilitation of some of SAC facilities (from 1998 to 2007).Most
the SAC current senior managers were trained under this corraboration
3.) World Fish Centre-Malaysia (assisted SAC with happa net materials
for a selective breeding program -2005).
4.) Moi University (training programmes, students attachments and research).
5.) Nairobi and Kenyatta Universities (Research and students attachments).
6.) Egerton University (Students attachments, veterinary works especially
in the monosex tilapia seeds production and other veterinary aspects
in SAC).
7.) Universitat fur Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU) of Austria. The BOMOSA (BOKU,
Moi University and SAC) program coordinator has provided SAC with feed
analysis equipment, clocks for automatic feeders, air pumps for the
aquariums among other things in addition to attaching several MSc students
who have done very useful experiments in feeding and growth in fish
farming.
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AN
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