Ngondo, Kelvin Elisha2024-05-282024-05-282019APAhttps://scholar.mzumbe.ac.tz/handle/123456789/839A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Project Planning and Management (MSC. PPM) of Mzumbe UniversityDespite its high potential, fish farming is still facing a lot of problems. It is said that among the problems facing the fish farming sector includes lack of good quality seeds, lack of good quality feeds, few capacity building sessions, high initial costs together with little information regarding the production and economic profitability of fish farming especially in Tanzania. On that regard, this study has a sole purpose of economic analyzing the profitability of semi intensive pond Tilapia farming in Bagamoyo district. The study involved a sample of 92 semi intensive pond Tilapia farmers and had the following specific objectives(i) To examine the effects of social factors on the profitability of semi intensive pond Tilapia Farming Projects (ii) To examine the effects of operating costs on profitability of semi intensive pond Tilapia farming Projects (iii) To examine the effects of on-farm practices on the Profitability of Semi intensive pond Tilapia Farming Projects (iv) To assess the viability of semi intensive Pond Tilapia farming Projects These objectives were analyzed through the use of Gross margin to find the profitability, multiple regression to find the effects of the mentioned factors on profitability and the NPV to find the viability of Semi intensive pond Tilapia farming in Bagamoyo District. Gross margin results showed that Tilapia farming in the study area was 35.64% indicating that fish farming in the area was profitable. Furthermore regression results showed that profitability of Pond semi intensive Pond Tilapia farming was affected significantly by the Cost of feeds, size of the seeds and stocking density. NPV results showed that Semi intensive pond Tilapia farming is viable projects with NPV 175,393.11TZS in ten years with discount ratio of 10%. The study recommends that there is a need of various actions to be taken by the government and all key stakeholders of fish farming and fishery in general. It also gives the limitation of the study together with the recommendations on areas of further studiesenFish farmingSemi intensivepond tilapia farmingThesis