The Aquaponic System in Kenema is growing! Time to scale up Aquaponics in Sierra Leone

 

Salone Aquaponic completes its scalable self-sustaining urban aquaponics farm in Kenema

Salone Aquaponic has completed its 250 square meter aquaponic and vertical farming greenhouse in Kenema, Eastern Sierra Leone, to produce lettuce, vegetables and tilapia fish in a self-sustaining, climate smart way. Locally produced food has many benefits such as fresh and vitamin-rich diet, short transport ways and job creation in remote communities, just to mention a few. The 250 square meter greenhouse holds rearing tanks for fingerlings, growout tanks for 1500 tilapia and 3 growbeds, combining media beds and floating raft (DWC Deep Water Culture) in one system. 

250 sqm tropical greenhouse with DWC & media beds

Salad seeds growing in the aquaponic DWC

Cement growout ponds holding each 750-1000 tilapia

Soy bean growing in a gravel media bed

The system combines media beds and DWC

Spring onions in the DWC

Tilapia juveniles in one of the aquariums

Styrofoam plates with net cups are floating on the water

The greenhouse features a unique design for hot climates allowing air to flow through and create a natural cooling

Mini-grid PV-system for the supply of energy to the compound

10kw lithium-ion battery array and PV components

The offgrid aquaponic system is powered by a 10KW photovoltaic system 

Tilapia fingerlings in one of our fingerling tanks

Big thanks to the team of Agro Fish Farm SL Ltd. for the improved tilapia fingerlings

Agro Fish Farm SL Ltd. raises improved tilapia in greenwater ponds

The CEO and founder Aminata Kandeh monitoring and supervising the stocking process

Agro Fish Farm CEO Aminata Kandeh 

Fish food made with locally available products

Making floating pellets with locally available material