Economic Feasibility of Community-Based Fish Culture in Seasonally Flooded Rice Fields in Bangladesh and Vietnam

Dey, Madan M.; Prein, M.; Haque, A.B.M. Mahfuzul; Sultana, Parvin; Dan, Nguyen Cong; Hảo, Nguyễn Văn

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“…Thus by the intervention of CBFM in management of open waterbody like beel Mail has got of a good start by raising overall productivity, fish consumption and making social progress in empowering poor landless fishermen. Fish culture or stocking of fish fingerlings in flooded rice field has been cited as an effective means of increasing farm productivity and for poverty alleviation [9][10][11]. Garaway et al [12] reviewed that outcomes of stock enhancement in water body depends on the environments into which enhancements are introduced, involving dynamic interactions between the biological characteristics of the resource, the technical intervention of enhancement and, crucially, the people who use and manage it.…”

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Socio-economic Impact of Community Based Fish Culture on Seasonal Floodplain <i>Beel</i> - A Comparative Study

Hossain

Siwar²,

Mokhtar

et al. 2010

J. Sci. Res.

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Beel Mail is a 100 ha seasonal floodplain beel where community based fish culture was introduced during rainy season with 73 community members by department of fisheries with the funding support of WorldFish Center in year 2006. Socio-economic impact of this management was compared with control beel Chandpur. Beel Chandpur is 200 ha seasonal floodplain beel where also 16 landowner part time fishermen introduced fish culture during flooding. Beel Mail was stocked with 34.93 kg ha -1 fish fingerlings and beel Chandpur was stocked with 9.68 kg ha -1 . Fish was harvested after about 6 months culture period and it was noticed that the gross production was about 4.7 times higher in the project site than the control site. Farmers obtained TK 7481.23 ha -1 as net return based on production cost in beel Mail and TK 3261.90 ha -1 as net return based on production cost in beel Chandpur. Average fish consumption increased by 20.49% in project site. In addition, future stocking and saving fund for fishermen society were established and sharing of benefit from fish culture was more evenly distributed between landowners and landless fishermen in project site than control beel.

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Socio-economic Impact of Community Based Fish Culture on Seasonal Floodplain <i>Beel</i> - A Comparative Study

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Siwar²,

Mokhtar

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“…As for river fisheries, great care is needed to ensure that work on these systems is socially relevant and that a sustainable management regime is identified. The recent work by WorldFish in Bangladesh and Vietnam indicates successful approaches to this (Dey and Prein 2003, 2004aand 2004b. Faced with a continuing large gap between global supply and demand for fish protein, and especially critical shortages in some regions, notably Sub-Saharan Africa (Delgado et al, 2003), aquaculture is widely regarded as having a critical role in meeting global and regional food requirements over the next 20 years.…”

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“…In more recent work the WorldFish Center has recorded a 10% lower cost of production for rice in flood-prone rice ecosystems in Bangladesh and Vietnam and a higher net return from rice fish of an additional 400US$/ha (Bangladesh), 340 US$/ha Red river delta (Vietnam), and 220 US$/ha in Mekong delta (Vietnam). Significantly these benefits were obtained with no reduction in the wild fish catch (Dey and Prein 2003, 2004a, 2004b. Small-scale integrated farming systems are more efficient at converting feeds into fish and these produce fewer negative impacts than purely commercial fish farms.…”

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Fisheries and water productivity in tropical river basins: Enhancing food security and livelihoods by managing water for fish

Dugan

Dey

Sugunan³

2006

Agricultural Water Management

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Faced with growing pressure upon freshwater resources, increased water productivity in agriculture is essential. Efforts to do so however need to consider the wider role of water in sustaining food production. This paper considers the importance of water management in sustaining fish production in tropical river basins, and the potential for enhancing food production and income to farmers by integrating fish production into some farming systems. Specific examples from selected river systems and irrigated farming systems in Africa and Asia are provided. These highlight the benefits of integrating the water requirements for fish into water allocation decisions. In some cases these benefits can be realised without any reduction in the water available for other purposes, while in others a trade-off needs to be considered. The nature of these trade-offs needs to be better understood for better decision making in water management. Media summaryFish is an important food crop, and the water requirements of fisheries need to be factored into water management decisions. Examples of how this can be done through win-win approaches for fisheries and other water uses are provided.

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“…In fact, rice production was even enhanced in most cases (Table 2). Community based fi sh culture can increase fi sh production to about 600kg/ha/year in shallow fl ooded areas and up to 1.5 t/ha/year in deep fl ooded areas, without reduction in wild fi sh catch (Dey et al 2005). The trials at the sites in Bangladesh and Vietnam led to the conclusion that the community-based approach is technically feasible, confi rming earlier experiments and trials on the basis of individually managed fencedin plots Roy et al, 1990;Ali et al, 1993Ali et al, , 1998Rothuis et al, 1998aRothuis et al, , 1998bSen et al 2003;Singh et al 2003).…”

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“…This contribution presents the key results of this work, focusing on the economics of existing land use patters and the impact of community based fi sh culture on rice yields and income. Further details of the project results are available in Prein (2003, 2004), Dey et al (2005), and Prein and Dey (2001).…”

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Increased Income from Seasonally Flooded Rice Fields through Community Based Fish Culture in Bangladesh and Vietnam

Dey¹,

Prein²

2005

Plant Production Science

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Economic Feasibility of Community-Based Fish Culture in Seasonally Flooded Rice Fields in Bangladesh and Vietnam

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Socio-economic Impact of Community Based Fish Culture on Seasonal Floodplain <i>Beel</i> - A Comparative Study

Socio-economic Impact of Community Based Fish Culture on Seasonal Floodplain <i>Beel</i> - A Comparative Study

Fisheries and water productivity in tropical river basins: Enhancing food security and livelihoods by managing water for fish

Increased Income from Seasonally Flooded Rice Fields through Community Based Fish Culture in Bangladesh and Vietnam

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