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Status of Existing Integrated Aquaculture System of Some Areas in Sadar Upazila of Dinajpur District, Bangladesh

Krishna Chandra Roy
Department of Fisheries Management, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU), Dinajpur, Bangladesh

Irin Jahan Eva
Department of Fisheries Management, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU), Dinajpur, Bangladesh

Kaniz Fatema
Department of Fisheries Management, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU), Dinajpur, Bangladesh

Md. Rezoanul Haque
Department of Fisheries Management, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU), Dinajpur, Bangladesh

Md. Abu Zafar
Department of Aquaculture, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU), Dinajpur, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

This study was conducted to know the current status of integrated aquaculture system in Dinajpur Sadar Upazila, Bangladesh. For this purpose, randomly selected 100 integrated aquaculture farmers were interviewed through a pre-tested well-structured questionnaire from February 2019 to August 2019. Average cost and income of rice-fish culture (34 farmers) were 2.08 ± 1.96 and 6.61 ± 6.23 for fish; 0.28 ± 0.26 and 1.22 ± 1.15 for rice, in vegetable-fish culture (47 farmers) 7.05 ± 1.76 and 22.35 ± 5.59 for fish; 0.41 ± 0.06 and 1.59 ± 0.26 for vegetable, in fruit-fish culture (4 farmers) 1.07 ± 0.12 and 3.43 ± 0.4 for fish; 0.52 ± 0.12 and 1.44 ± 0.33 for fruit, in poultry-fish culture (10 farmers) 5.18 ± 4.8 and 16.43 ± 15.21 for fish; 3.09 ± 2.61 and 3.62 ± 3.07 for poultry and in duck-fish culture (5 farmers) 1.19 ± 0.57 and 3.89 ± 1.87 for fish; 0.39 ± 0.2 and 0.96 ± 0.49 for duck, respectively. Among them fruit cum fish culture showed significant (P<0.05) value of fish production. Maximum fish production (11.11 ton/ha) and highest combine net profit (10.30 lac Tk/ha) were found in duck-fish culture. As a secondary crop, poultry showed highest net profit (21.4 lac Tk/ha) during the research. It can be concluded that farmers get benefited from integrated aquaculture using minimum amount of cost and can improve their economic conditions.

Keywords: Aquaculture, Existing status, Integration

Location: Dinajpur Sadar Upazila, Bangladesh.

Start Date: 00-02-2019

End Date: 00-08-2019

Program Area: Resource Development and Management

Non-commodity: Performance

Objectives:

To evaluate the present status of integrated aquaculture system of Sadar upazila in Dinajpur district.

Methodology:

Study area and period- Dinajpur Sadar Upazila consists of ten unions namely, Auliapur, Askarpur, Uthrail, Kamalpur, Chehelgazi, Fazilpur, Shankarpur, Shashara, Sekhpura and Sundarban. Among them integrated aquaculture systems were practiced in five unions namely, Uthrail, Shankarpur, Askarpur, Sundarban, and Kamalpur. Data were collected from February 2019 to August 2019. Data Collection- Union visits and questionnaire based interview methods were used for data collection from both primary and secondary sources. Face to face interview was followed during data collection from integrated culture. Focus group discussion and sometimes crosscheck interview were done to obtain more reliable data. Upazila fisheries office, livestock office, agriculture office, various books, reports, journals and thesis papers were also used as secondary source for data collection. Data Processing and analysis- Collected data were accumulated, summarized, arranged and analyzed in Microsoft excel and Microsoft word, respectively. Statistical analysis of data namely, independent sample t-test and one-way ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) was performed for assessing any significant difference between or among the parameters using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) version 22.0 at a 5% level of significance.

Source of Information: International Journal of Biosciences; Vol. 16, No. 3, p. 683-691, 2020

Article Link (Online Journal): http://dx.doi.orG/10.12692/IJB/16.3.683-691

Funding Source:

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Budget:

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Achievement/Findings:

Integrated aquaculture may be a good option as income generating source in the northern area of Bangladesh. It can be obtained twin or more production by giving same effort which can be more profitable than single one with maintaining the sustainable production of each crop by using all resources including land and water. In the rural areas, peoples are ready to provide extra effort and time for the extra income, but fund as well as loan facilities are the main obstacle for their development works. To meet up the nutritional demand and reduce poverty from the society, government and non- government organizations should take the initiatives to provide enough funds to the small scale farmers for the integrated farming in the country.

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