Abstract
Aquaculture plays an important role to increase farm income and hence alleviate widespread poverty in the country. Fish is considered as the principal source of animal protein. The research was conducted to assess the status of adoption of improved fish production technologies available in the Rupandehi, Nepal. The research was designed to ascertain the socio-demographic characteristics of the farmers, determine available technologies on fish production, determine awareness and adoption of the available technologies and identify the major problems faced by farmers in using improved fish production technologies. Purposive sampling procedure was used to select 100 respondents for the study. Data were analyzed using frequency count, percentages, standard deviation and indexing. The result shows that average age of the respondents was 39.8 years. Eighty percent respondents had post-secondary school certificate. Major sources of information of fish farming were trainings and information and communication technologies. Average pond size of respondents was 0.8 ha. Most of the respondents were aware of the technologies and adopted them. Indexing showed that High cost of fish feed was ranked as the major problem followed by high cost of fingerlings and inadequate capital in using improved fish production technology.
Highlights
Aquaculture is the breeding and rearing of fish, shellfish, or plants in ponds, or any enclosure for direct harvest of the product, which is an area of activity growing rapidly (FAO, 2004)
Nepalese aquaculture is in growing stage and the amount of fish production is too low compared to the world aquaculture production; the progress achieved in recent years is highly encouraging (Mishra, 2015)
Fish is acclaimed to be the principal source of animal protein for over one billion people globally as it is the cheapest source of animal protein, providing many important nutritional and health benefits (FAO, 2004)
Summary
Aquaculture is the breeding and rearing of fish, shellfish, or plants in ponds, or any enclosure for direct harvest of the product, which is an area of activity growing rapidly (FAO, 2004). Aquaculture is an important food production sector in the world. Nepalese aquaculture is in growing stage and the amount of fish production is too low compared to the world aquaculture production; the progress achieved in recent years is highly encouraging (Mishra, 2015). In Nepal, fish demand as estimated by FAO, 2012 was about 62,500 tons at 2.3 kg per capita consumption. Fish production in Nepal is gradually increasing with a growth rate of 8-9% per year reaching 64,900 MT in year 2013/14, contributing 33.17% from capture fisheries and 66.83% from culture practices (DoFD, 2014) but this productivity lags far behind from neighboring countries. Aquaculture contributes to about 1.32 % of total GDP and about 4.22% of AGDP (DoFD, 2016)
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callMore From: International Journal of Applied Sciences and Biotechnology
Disclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
