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Outline Research Programme for the African Regional Aquaculture Centre

Year of publication 1980

Author Mr. M.A. Afinowi,Dr. K.W. Chow ,Dr. A.G. Coche ,Dr. S. Dadzie ,Dr. V.G. Jhingran,Dr. T.V.R. Pillay ;Office of Assistant Director-General

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Synopsis (short abstract) One of the main activities of the African Regional Aquaculture Centre established in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, under the UNDP/FAO Regional Project RAF/76/009 (Establishment of an African Regional Aquaculture Centre) is multidisciplinary research to solve problems encountered in large-scale application of aquaculture systems and to improve the technologies involved. The farming systems selected for research are those that were selected for production programmes in the national ten-year development plans prepared by representatives of countries that participated in the first Regional Workshop on Aquaculture Planning organised by the FAO/UNDP Aquaculture Development and Coordination Programme (ADCP) in Accra, Ghana, July 1975.

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