The Community The farm is situated at Ha Lajone, a rural community in the Lesotho Highlands. The community has been drawn into the project in various ways:

• direct employment
• aquaculture training
• processing skills
• tourism
• commercial fishing
• sport fishing, and
• support of local businesses.

The Ha Lajone community, through the Lajone Fish Farm, receives an annual royalty on all the trout produced in the area.

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The Kingdom of Lesotho benefits by:

• becoming the "bread-basket" of trout production in Africa
• earning foreign revenue
• the empowerment of its people
• unlocking sustainable resources
• the creation of employment
• the transfer of skills, and
• meeting and exceeding the goals and objectives for aquaculture development set out in NEPAD and by SADC.