Established in 2016, Ndagha Sustainable Foods produces and sells tilapia at Kamwendo trading center in Mchinji District. Founders and Managing Directors Benson Longwe and Grace Longwe have been steering the business for over eight years.

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Facilitating Improved Fish Production and Value Addition through Contract Farming and Investment

Now completed, this 31-month partnership implemented a fish aggregation and offtake model with 1,000 farmers and increased the net income of each smallholder farmer under contract by an estimated £246 per year. In the project, CASA supported Ndagha with experts to strengthen the company’s management systems in preparation for investment. CASA also continuously facilitated the actual third-party debt investment in the company to the tune of £34,500. The purpose of the investment was to acquire and install solar-powered cold chain facilities, solar-powered fish drier, a fish smoking facility, a 3-tonne refrigerated van for transporting fish from aggregation centres to the central outlet market to viably support the model scale-up plan, and two solar powered high-yielding boreholes to support expansion of the ponds within the partner’s farm.

Updated: December 2024