Impacts and Determinants of Adoption in River-Based Tilapia Cage Culture

Abstract

Cage culture, an aquaculture technique for tilapia production, expanding quickly in flowing water of rivers and canals in Bangladesh. The present study identifies the determinants of improve cage culture practices adoption and its impact on productivity and profitability. The study employed poisson regression, and inverse probability weighted regression adjustment techniques to achieve the objectives. The findings indicate that the decision to adopt was positively influenced by education (p-value<0.10), extension contact (p-value<0.05), societal membership (p-value<0.05), and number of working person (p-value<0.10) while inversely influenced by farm size (p-value<0.10). Adopters of improve practices received significantly higher productivity and profit compared to non-adopters. More research and investment, as well as modification in extension services and approaches are needed to improve the adoption level and sustain the production. Higher productivity implies higher income, thus may reduce poverty.