Use of Fish Farming Practices by the Fish Farmers

Md Rubayet Al Ferdous Noman,Md Shariful Islam,Pallab Goswami,Saiful Huda

doi:10.3329/ralf.v7i3.51375

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Abstract

The main purpose of the study was to determine the extent of use of fish farming practices by the fish farmers. This study was conducted at three unions named Hapania, Kirtipur, and Tilakpur of NaogaonSadarupazilla under Naogaon district. Ninety-two (92) fish farmers were randomly selected as sample from an updated list of 120 fish farmers. Data were collected by a pre-tested interview schedule during 20th September to 20th October 2020. Simple and direct questions with different appropriate scales were used to obtain information. Descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis was used for the present study. Slightly above half (53.3 percent) of the fish farmers had medium use of fish farming practices, while 42.4 percent fish farmers had high use of fish farming practices, and only 4.3 percent fish farmers had low use of fish farming practices. Thus, overwhelming majority (95.7 percent) of the fish farmers had medium to high use of fish farming practices. Pond size, fish farming experience, cosmopoliteness, and extension contacts of the respondents had significant positive contribution with their use of fish farming practices. Coefficients of other selected variables namely age, education, family size, annual income, and knowledge on fish farming didn’t have any significant contribution with their use of fish farming practices. ‘Lack of government support’ emerged as the 1st ranked problem as per opinion given by the fish farmers (77.17 percent). The least problem as per opinion given by the fish farmers was ‘High labor cost’. Res. Agric., Livest. Fish.7(3): 565-576, December 2020

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Fisheries sector play an important role in develop the socioeconomic condition of an agriculturally based country, like Bangladesh
Age In the study area, majority (43.4 percent) of the fish farmers were middle aged, 19.6 percent of them belonged to young age category and 37.0 percent of the fish farmers belonged to the old age category (Figure 1)
It may be concluded that the production of fish will not be possible to improve to a significant extent unless the concerned authorities take proper steps to improve fish farmers use of overall practices regarding fish farming

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Fisheries sector play an important role in develop the socioeconomic condition of an agriculturally based country, like Bangladesh. Contribution in fisheries sector of Bangladesh is well recognized in the world (DoF, 2015). Bangladesh is a transitional zone of many different flora and fauna because of the geographical distribution and climatic characteristics. The areas of closed and open water resources are 0.79 and 3.91 million ha, respectively (DoF, 2017). Bangladesh is one of the world's leading fish producing countries with a total production of 42.77 lakh MT in FY 2017-18, where aquaculture production contributes 56.24 percent of the total fish production. Average growth performance of this sector is 5.26 percent for last 10 years whereas inland open water (capture) contributes 28.1 5percent (121.6 lakh MT) and inland closed water (culture) contributes 56.24 percent (24.04 lakh MT) to total production (DoF, 2018)

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