Snail Farming

04/05/2022

Steps To Starting A Snail Farm In Nigeria

If it has worked elsewhere, it will work in Nigeria. Below are the five basic steps you need to follow to start a profitable snail farming business in Nigeria.

Step 1 – Decide which species of snail to farm.

When creating a snail farm, you’ll have to use a single species of snail. Research has shown that snail species such as Achatina achatina are the best for warm climate regions like Africa.

Step 2 – Set-up your farmland for housing.

Your snail housing must have enough space for your snails to graze freely. Overcrowding your snailery impedes the development of snails and therefore should be avoided. A well-spaced snail housing reduces the risk of disease outbreak caused by overcrowding.

Snails are good at escaping from where they are kept, so you should endeavour to construct escape proof housing. You can use a pen house that will be spacious and accessible with a soil depth of 10 inches and trees around it.

Step 3 – Purchase your snails
To be continued.....

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Health benefits of snails

Snails provide an important source of animal protein—being naturally loaded with vitamins E, A, K, and B12—as well as pharmaceutical properties for the production of certain drugs because of their therapeutic constituents and also providing beauty benefits for the cosmetic industry. The importance of the snail is well acknowledged in European countries like France, Italy, United Kingdom and Germany, also in America and Asia. It has low fat and cholesterol, which is widely accepted for special needs medical patients, and also helps in fighting cancer and preventing heart disorders.

Oluwatobiloba Ohioma-Belo, an entrepreneur in the snail trade, revealed that quitting her events planning job to invest in snails was the best career move she has ever made. The entrepreneur is in the business of sourcing snails from farmers in Lagos, Nigeria, and selling them to clients both locally and internationally.

“The export business came when I started here in Lagos and I had a lot of enquiries from the US from the UK from Holland. Like a lot of Nigerians, even when I knew that I have not even covered Lagos—even till now I have still not covered Lagos—so when I started having enquiries via email, via phone calls, then a lot of African stores were calling me,” she said.

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