Description

Written by Dr. Olayinka Akintomide, a consultant with over 25 years of experience in fish, snail, and poultry farming, this is a hands-on manual for anyone looking to start or scale a snail farming business. Volume 1 covers the full foundation: snail anatomy, housing and environment setup, health management, and the practical techniques needed to keep a healthy colony. It’s built around four core pillars shown right on the cover, profitable business, practical techniques, health and management, and housing and environment, so readers get both the biology and the business side in one book.

What makes this guide stand out is its practicality. It doesn’t just explain snail farming in theory, it walks through real feasibility studies and field scenarios, so new farmers can see how the numbers and logistics actually play out before they commit resources. Snail farming is pitched as a low-stress agribusiness option: it’s odour-free, noise-free, and the snails themselves are easy to handle without any risk to the farmer, making it accessible even for people without a farming background or a lot of land.

Whether you’re an aspiring smallholder farmer, an investor scouting agribusiness opportunities, a researcher, or someone just curious about alternative protein sources, this book gives a clear entry point into an industry that’s still underexplored in many parts of Africa despite steady demand for snail meat. Paired with Volume 2, it forms a complete twin-book resource covering everything from getting started to advanced propagation and marketing.