Integrated Fish Farming in Jorhat District of Assam: Problems and Policy Options

Abstract

Assam has enormous potential for development of integrated fish farming to make the state self sufficient on table fish requirement and also for employment generation. The present study is an attempt to analyses the impediments faced by the farmers practicing integrated fish farming in Jorhat district of Assam. The study revealed that integrated fish farming as a system generated sizeable income and employment in the area. On the whole, four major integrated fish farming systems were adopted by the sample farmers, e.g. integrated pig fish farming, integrated poultry- fish farming, integrated horti-fish farming and integrated horti-pig-fish farming. High cost of input, lack of finance, non-availability of fish seed, inadequate training facility, poaching, lack of transportation facility were found to be the major problems faced by the sample farmers hindering the adoption of integrated fish farming in the study area.