Recognized at the Blue Invest Forum in Lomé, the company led by Dr. Ahama Kplolali and Kokoevi Agbevenou-Dovi (MSc) is developing a technology that combines fish farming with vegetable production. Through this model, known as aquaponics, the promoters aim to establish a 3,000-square-meter commercial farm in the Togolese capital.
In 2020, a late-season drought destroyed the tomato crops of the Ahama family in the municipality of Noepe. In response to this loss, Dr. Ahama Kplolali, a plant physiologist and biotechnologist, was tasked by her father with finding an agricultural solution that would not depend on climatic conditions.
According to the co-founder of Aquaponie du Togo, the objective was to identify a viable crop system independent of seasons and rainfall. This search led her toward soilless farming technologies, and more specifically aquaponics, a system that combines aquaculture and hydroponics.
Ahama Kplolali then reached out to Kokoevi Agbevenou, her former classmate at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lomé, who later specialized in plant biosciences after completing a master's degree in France with a focus on microbiology and agrobioscience. Agbevenou says she quickly joined the project given the importance of the technology, at a time when aquaponics was still relatively under-documented, even at the international level.
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