Biologist pilots fish farming project
Monday, February 09, 2015
Fish farmer ULF Nermark (right) casts out a net after catching fish from a tank. PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
Speaking to Business Monitor, Nermark said that he has been doing fish farming since 1980 in his home country, Sweden.
“This industry can be one of the fastest growing sectors in Botswana,” says the farmer.
He is speaking of a lifetime of trust broken, a belief that their vigilance, their mephato patrols, their ancestral knowledge of the land would keep disaster at bay.That trust now lies trampled by a virus no elder remembers ever seeing. Yet, hidden in the despair is a quiet, persistent helper that must not be abandoned: Artificial Intelligence or AI.We are not talking about cold machines replacing the warmth of community effort. The farmers...