Samenvatting

Catfish is a high source of protein and is commonly cultured due to its tolerance for harsh temperatures. This study looks into analysing the current catfish value chain and assessing the performance of producer organization for more efficient marketing of catfish for small scale catfish farmers in the southern part of Nigeria, precisely Nchia in Eleme local government of rivers state. Small scale catfish farmers are faced with input and output marketing challenges, which have intensified as a result of many underlining factors, these factors can be categorized into socioeconomic factors, institutional factors and marketing factors.