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By Joshua Kato
By Joshua Kato
After ascertaining that the site has got all the requirements of a good fishpond, then the excavation starts. There are two ways of digging a pond.
Farmers with the means hire tractors to excavate the ponds. The average cost of using a tractor to construct a 20×40 metre pond is sh10m. But this is a bigger pond. A farmer can construct smaller ponds of say 10×20 metres depending on their desires.
Note that a tractor takes a shorter time to accomplish the job, compared to manual labour, however, manual labour is cheaper and affordable for smallholder farmers.
