Production risk of pangas ( Pangasius hypophthalmus ) fish farming

Adoption of scientific management practice is the pre-condition for increasing productivity in any farm business. This study estimates the level of scientific aquaculture management practice (SAMP) adoption, factor affecting adoption and its relation with productivity. Sixty aquaculture farms were selected from 3 upazilas of Mymensingh district of Bangladesh. Adoption level was measured by following Sengupta (1967) while Tobit regression was used to assess the determinants of adoption level. Polynomial regression was employed to show the relationship among farm size, adoption level and productivity. Result revealed that average SAMP adoption level was 54% where 53% farmers were medium adopter. Training, experience, education and extension service had significant positive effect on level of adoption. Productivity was significantly higher for those farmers who adopted more SAMP. Adoption level, productivity and profitability of small farmers were higher than that of large farmers. The study suggests farmers for adopting scientific management practices in order to increase the aquaculture productivity and profitability.

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 80%

Management practice adoption and productivity of commercial aquaculture farms in selected areas of Bangladesh

Prodhan

Khan

2018

“…Input variables were labor man days, seed cost, fertilizer cost, pesticides cost, irrigation cost, land rent and power tiller cost which were measured in Bangladeshi taka. Labor input was the summation of both family and hired labor and eight hours are considered as one man day (Khan, 2017;Iliyasu and Mohamed, 2016;Alam et al, 2012). Because of quality and price variation, different input's costs were used for efficiency measurement instead of quantity of inputs.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of tomato farmers efficiency in Mymensingh district of Bangladesh: Data Envelopment Analysis approach

Mitra

Yunus

2018

Tomato is one of the major vegetables in Bangladesh that experienced massive productivity growth after independence. Nevertheless, farmers are struggling to find out optimal input combination in their farm that causes inefficient input use. Therefore, this study estimated the factors affecting efficiency of tomato farmers in Mymensingh of Bangladesh. Input oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was employed for measuring efficiency while Tobit regression model was used to estimate the factors affecting efficiency. A total of 60 tomato farmers were selected using random sampling technique. Mean technical efficiency for tomato farmers was 0.83 implies that tomato farmers can reduce their input use by 17%. Education, training and high yielding variety adoption had positive effect on efficiency while age of tomato farmer's had negative effect on efficiency. Efficiency increased with the farmer's education, training and variety adoption. Farmer's adopting local high yielding variety was more efficient than that of exotic high yielding variety. In addition, efficiency of farmers reduced with their age. Improvement of tomato farmer's efficiency is possible if farmers received education, training and local high yielding variety.

“…World per capita fish annual consumption has reached a new record in 2015 (20 kg per capita) due to tremendous fish production (FAO, 2016).This sector emerges as the fastest growing protein source that meets up the increasing protein demand of huge population in developing countries. In Bangladesh aquaculture sector has expanded rapidly all over the country (Khan et al, 2017). More than about 15.6 million people of the country are directly and indirectly involved in this sector (Islam and Bhuiyan, 2016;Ahasan, 2012).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Financial profitability of small scale shrimp farming in a coastal area of Bangladesh

Shawon¹,

Prodhan²,

Khan³

et al. 2018

Aquaculture especially shrimp farming has significant contribution to the economy of Bangladesh. The southwest coastal area is more prominent for commercial shrimp farming due to its auspicious environment, higher economic returns, nutrition value and for employment opportunity. The present study estimates the socioeconomic status and financial profitability of small-scale shrimp farming in selected areas of Khulna district. One hundred (100) shrimp farmers were selected and data were collected through direct interview method. Financial profitability was analyzed from the different point of view. The study revealed that about 35% farmers lie in prime working age group. Most of the farmers completed primary level of education while a few of them were illiterate. Family size of 65 % farmer’s was medium and 40% farmer’s main occupation was shrimp farming. Study also revealed that gross profit margin was high i.e. 59% indicating that farmers did well in managing their farm and farmers has more to cover for operating, financing and other cost. Break-even price for the small scale shrimp worked out Tk. 311 per kg while break-even production was found 155 kg per acre. Benefit cost ratio and net profit margin were found more than one and positive respectively, indicated that small scale shrimp farming was commercially profitable. The research concludes that there is ample scope and possibility for sustaining and developing the small scale shrimp farming in the coastal area of Bangladesh.J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 16(1): 104-110, April 2018