Commercial aquaponic system supported by INCITIS EU funded programme in Sierra Leone

Thanks to funding from the European Union, under the INCITIS project, in collaboration with the Government of Sierra Leone and the Njala University, Agriculture Department we could upgrade our commercial aquaponic greenhouse in Kenema, Eastern Sierra Leone.

A key learning and positive experince we took was the performance of local crops growing in soiless aquaponic systems, mainly the DMW (Deepwater culture system) and the media bed system filled with granite gravel and LECA light expanded clay substrate. 

For the next phase we plan a NFT nutrient film system to shade the water tanks from direct sunlights, whilst growing crops above the fishtanks, so we utilise each square meter of the greenhouse for production of crops and fish. 

Growing ocra in a gravel based media bed

Young tilapia fingerlings for outgrowing