Nigeria: Onion Seedlings As Fish Food?

Onion farmers in Jigawa State are said to have faced difficulty in the last farming season following the acute scarcity of onion seedlings in the market. The seedlings became scarce after fish farmers discovered their importance in fish farming and therefore bought them in large quantities to feed their fish. Following the two phenomena - fish farmers and poor weather (excessive rain) conditions - the onion seedlings become a scarce commodity and the price soared by over 200 percent.

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Editor: There's obviously a lot of information missing from the article from which the above snippet was taken. Are the onion seedlings given directly to the fish for them to chew on?! Or are do the seedlings and the fish exist in some sort of aquaculture-type symbiosis? Inquiring readers would have liked to know!

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