Ideal for:
Community, NGO, school, farm, lodge or hostel projects for food supply.
Educational benefits of putting up the KSBA72 at your educational institution:
The systems were developed to be used by educational institutions. The size makes it easy to manage but big enough for all the students to have hands-on experience with a variety of fruiting, leafy and root crops, as well as growing Tilapia fish from fingerling to harvest size. Kleinskuur Aquaponics has a complete manual available to enable the practical teaching of aquaponics.
Natural sciences:
Importance of nutrition for animals and plants, all the farming skills involved in working with fish and plants, understanding the dynamics of an ecosystem.
Physics:
Understand the working of the system, waterflow in the system, and the role of the different components
Management skills:
Planning ahead to plant and harvest and replace harvested fish with fingerlings, taking responsibility for daily and weekly tasks, keeping record of everything, managing input costs, managing and doing sales for income.
Creative skills:
Developing an identity and logo, as well as marketing material and packaging for produce, create added value through processing, and using produce in unique recipes.
Marketing skills:
Packaging and selling the produce out of the system.
Production:
| Total in system | Harvest per month | Harvest per year | |
| Nile Tilapia | 1 500 fish | 100 kg (@400g/fish) | 1 200 kg |
| Gravel Barrels (Tomato as sample) | 72 barrels | 288 kg | 3 456 kg |
| Deep Water Culture (Lettuce as sample) | 720 holes | 720 plants | 8 640 plants |
Quick facts:
| Size: | 18 m X 8 m |
| Total water in system: | 25 000 litres |
| Daily water use: | 50 – 100 litres |
| Fish feed: | 38 kg/month |
| Power use: | 1,2 kW without heat pump – 4 kW with heat pump |
Capital cost: (VAT Excluded)
| Complete system: | (No optionals) | R323,108.74 |
| Item prices: | With optionals included in total: | |
| Wicking beds x2 | R9 179 | R323, 288 |
| Starter pack | R13 310 | R336, 419 |
| Tunnel | R132 458 | R455, 567 |
*Prices subject to change
Included:
· Fish section with filtering, mineralisation, and nitrification system
· Gravel Barrels section for fruiting crops, such as tomato, pepper, cucumber, and brinjal
· Deep Water Culture section for leafy vegetables, such as lettuce, spinach, kale, and herbs
· Water pump, air pump, pipes and fittings
Optional:
· Wicking beds for root crops, e.g. carrot, onion, potato
· Starter pack with seed, grow medium, seedling trays, pest management, nutrients, fish, fish feed.
· Tunnel/net house with net/plastic covering
· Training and support package
Excluded:
· Gravel for Gravel Barrels
· Paving or bricks for pathways and cement slab under dam
· Terrain preparation
· Transport of system, travel and accommodation costs for construction team
· Labour on site to assist with construction