RE: The Latin American Report # 214
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The political harm continuously done the Cuban people is inexcusable. I wish I could inform everyone there that their fate is not in the hands of psychopaths in the US, nor those in Cuba, but that they themselves can feed themselves, using aquaponics. It is not a highly technological method. A 55 gallon drum with catfish fed on table scraps can feed a couple, and the waste water can be dipped from the drum and used to fertilize food crops, even grown indoors in hydroponics in used gutters, or plastic beverage or other containers. Even if people don't have sunny windows, they can use inexpensive LED lights. The plants clean the fish waste from the water, which can be returned to the catfish, so the water can even be recycled.
https://www.survivalkit.com/blog/how-to-raise-catfish-in-a-barrel/
https://knowledgeburrow.com/how-many-catfish-can-you-raise-in-a-barrel/
https://mdcreekmore.com/raising-catfish-in-a-barrel/
You don't need expensive pumps or aquarium bubblers to move the water. A bucket works.
Argentina needs this information too, I think. We all may soon.
Thanks!
I have been doing some research on the subject and there are certain experiences in Cuba. A senior official recently spoke about how each of us must take responsibility for food security into our own hands, and he alluded particularly to the potential of domestic aquaculture. He was taken for a fool and was subject of many insipid memes. For countries like ours, on the contrary, it seems to me a critical option.
The problem with our aquaponics experiences is that they are still very limited, unfortunately. In fact, a few years ago there was more development than now. I remember buying a lot of red tilapia, and claria fillet was also well commercialized. In reviewing the topic I came across this local development project, which is very close to me in terms of distace. It looks quite organic, so it may be a good option depending on prices. Thanks for your helpful feedback, once again.
I am happy to know better that Cuba is not without information and local experience with aquaponics. It is notable that companies that produce food would universally go bankrupt if everyone were food self sufficient. While that may not be the only reason for the psychological warfare against food self sufficiency and aquaponics specifically, I suspect it is a fundamental basis for it. Government is utterly dependent on dependence, and all institutions are. Those benefiting most from institutional power are likely to realize any challenge to centralization and dependence is contrary to their interests, and little is more productive than mockery when it comes to propaganda.
I think we are strongly conditioned to be dependent on centralized hierarchies, and that few of us can radically become independent and decentralize. I think everyone can do so gradually, generationally, as those that can radically change introduce successive generations to these concepts of independence earlier in life. I hope we can at least have a foot in the door before existential crises make access to requisite supplies of equipment impossible to gain or maintain, as I believe is the case in Haiti today.
I hope the same my friend.