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Study on Comparative Assessment of Aquaculture Technology Adoption by the
Carp, Golda and Bagda Fishers in the Sidre Affected Area of Bangladesh
Nikar Chandra Howlader
1
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Kalam Abul
2
1
Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, FAO, Bangladesh
2
National Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant, FAO, Bangladesh
Corresponding author email:
nikar_chandra@yahoo.com
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Authors
International Journal of Aquaculture, 2013, Vol.3, No.9 doi: 10.5376/ija.2013.03.0009
Received: 11 Apr., 2013
Accepted: 24 Apr., 2013
Published: 6 May, 2013
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Howlader. This is an open access article published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use,
distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Howlader, 2013, Study on Comparative Assessment of Aquaculture Technology Adoption by the Carp, Golda and Bagda Fishers in the Sidre Affected Area of
Bangladesh, International Journal of Aquaculture, Vol.3, No.9 38-42 (doi: 10.5376/ija.2013. 03.0009)
Abstract
The study was carried out in November 2102 to assess the comparative assessment of aquaculture technology adoption by
the Carp, Golda and Bagda fishers in the Sidre affected area of Bangladesh. The study was done under the Emergency 2007 Cyclone
Recovery and Restoration (ECRRP) Project (Component-A) with the help of staff of Shakoler Janny Kallyan, Non Government
organization (NGO). There were three types of respondents (Carp, Golda and Bagda Fishers). The summery findings of the study are
described in this section in briefly. It is found from the analysis that 100% of the Carp fishers indicated to have adopted at least one
new aquaculture technology disseminated by the project for improved carp fish culture in the ponds. 31.5% of the Carp fishers
indicated to have adopted 4 types of new technologies (the list of the new aquaculture technologies were identified by the project
expert and DoF field officials) while 20.3% adopted five types of new technologies. The 100% of the Golda fishers adopted at least
one new technology disseminated by the project for improved Golda shrimp culture. 95.5% adopted the technology named
“
improved Pond/Gher preparation” while the adoption rate of female fishers (98.1%) is higher than in male (94.9%). 100% of the
Bagda fishers adopted at least one new technology disseminated by the project for improved Bagda shrimp culture in Ghers/ponds.
The second highest number of fishers (88.85%) adopted the technology of “use of supplementary fish feed” while the lowest number
of fishers (48%) adopted the technology “maintaining proper shrimp post larvae stocking” from the five disseminated new
technologies by the project.
Keywords
Technology adoption; Aquaculture and Farmer Field School (FFS)
Introduction
Unprecedented severe Cyclone Sidr in November
2007
caused huge damage and losses to the livelihoods
and assets of some 2 million rural families in the
south-west of Bangladesh (30 districts were affected,
of which 12 severely affected Upazilas in 5 districts).
Livelihood of majority of these people, are closely
related to the production and income drawn from
activities, directly or indirectly, in the agriculture
sector (crops, fisheries and livestock). Hardest hit
were the poor farmers, i.e. those who are characterized
as small (with 0.2 ha to 1.0 ha), marginal (with less
than 0.2 ha) and the even more vulnerable landless
farmers who cultivate very small plots (0.02 ha or
below) that they take lease from others, as well as
those eking out a living from small-scale fishing or the
few animals and poultry that they raise. Although
natural disasters are a common occurrence in Bangladesh,
destruction of infrastructure, housing, farm equipment,
cattle and fishing boats during the passage of the
cyclone has had a devastating effect on the life of
these groups and on agricultural production.
The Government of Bangladesh (GoB) has agreed
with donors that an integrated, multi-pronged approach
is required for the economic recovery of the affected
areas and for the reconstruction or replacement of
destroyed physical assets, to ensure the protection and
livelihood rehabilitation of communities living in
those areas. The World Bank (WB) cyclone assistance
program includes three major elements: budget
support in the form of a quick-disbursing US$100
million supplement to the GoB budget; livelihood
support (medium-term restoration and recovery)
(
Asian Development Bank, 2000), with an additional
US$50 million allocated to the Social Investment
Program Project (SIPP) for assistance to the affected
poor households in micro-credit, emergency assistance
funds, restoration of community infrastructure and