Cash crunch: Catfish farmers lament low patronage

Catfish farmers have lamented low patronage due to the cash crunch across the country occasioned by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) cashless policy and naira redesign.

The farmers said this in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos.

Mr Anthony Hammed, the Chief Executive Officer of Simple Aquaculture and Standard Resource Farms, lamented low demand of catfish in spite of the acceptance of cashless policy.

“The issue of low demand of catfish in recent times is of real concern to us presently.