A STUDY ON CULTURAL PRACTICES AND ECONOMICS OF FISH PRODUCTION

AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY

A STUDY ON CULTURAL PRACTICES AND ECONOMICS OF FISH PRODUCTION

     A visit to Integrated Agrofarm of Nepal and writing a report on information obtained from respondent farmer and concluding the obtained information's.

1.GENERAL INFORMATION

1.1 Name of respondent farmer= RAHUL BANJADE member of KAPILVASTU INTEGRATED AGRO FARM

1.2.Address= Banganga-1 Nibuwa, Kapilvastu, Nepal

1.3 Age= 27

1.4 Education= Bachelor in management

1.5 Mobile no= 9861698726

1.6 Annual family income= less than 1 lakh

1.7 Experience in fish farming= 2 years

2. Pond information

2.1 Pond area= 6 bigha( 120 kattha) and 1 pond= 1 bigha

2.2 Depth of pond= more than 5m

2.3 Water resource= rain water and irrigation canal

2.4 Pond liming before fish stocking= 2bag/pond and 1bag=25 kg and total 300 kg per 6 bigha i.e. 2.5kg per kattha

3. Pond inputs

3.1 What type of culture system do you follow?

= poly-culture(cow and fish and vegetable)

3.2 What species of fish do you culture/grow?

Ø   silver carp

Ø  Big head carp

Ø  Rohu

Ø  Naini

Ø  Common carp

Ø  Grass carp

3.3 From where do you procure fish seed?

= mainly from private hatcheries( bahadurgunj, bhairahawa) and few from government hatchery

3.4 Stocking density (no. of fish/kattha)

= 11,000 in 6 bigha

3.5 Cultural periods(days)= 9 months

3.6 Stock and harvest months= stock(Falgun-jestha) and harvest(mangsir-magh)

3.7 Stock size of fish(g)= 30-40

3.8 From where do you procedure feed/ingredients= private feed store

3.9 Organic manure used (kg/season)= 2-3 tractors/pond

3.10 DAP used(kg/season)= 300

3.11 Urea used(kg/season)= 120

3.12 Use of aerators= no use of aerators

4. Feed

4.1 Type= bran+pina, floating type

4.2 Total amount used(kg)=2 ton(bran+pina) and 400kg floating feed

4.3 Feeding frequency(times/day)= 1 time

4.4 Feeding rate(% of fish weight)= no information

4.5 Feeding method= direct throw in pond in one place

4.6 Feed for grass crap= Banana leaf and Barseem

5. Production

5.1 Total production(kg)= 25 q

5.2 Total consumption(kg)= 1 q

5.3 Total sale(kg)= 22 q

5.4 Given free to others(kg)= 2 q

6. Economics

A. Variable costs

Items	Unit	Quantity used	Rate per unit	Total costs(Nrs)
1.labor(household+hired)	Man-day	4	7,000/month	3,36,000
2.Lime	Kg	300	10	3,000
3.Fish seed	No.	11,000	Rs.1	11,000
4.Feed	Kg	1 ton bran+ 1 ton pina+ 400kg floating feed	Bran=22/kg Pina=35/kg Floating feed=62/kg	22,000+35,000+24,000 =81,000
5.Fertilizer(organic+chemical)	Kg	No fee for organic 120 kg UREA 300 Kg DAP	Urea=18/kg DAP=22/kg	2160+6600 =5,840
6.Equiments(net,buckets,etc)	No.30	Cemented vessel,tray,mahajal,power trailer,pumpset		4,39,200
7.Irrigation	-	-	-	-
8.Transportation	-	BOLERO PICKUP
9.Fuel	Litre	200	90	18,000
10.Electricity	Unit	-	-	-
11.Medicine/chemicals		-	-	-
12.land lease	6 bigha	-	4 lakh for 32 bigha	75,000
13. interest on working capital	12% per annum	-	-
Total variable cost	-	-	-	9,71,000

B. Income

Items	Unit	Quantity	Rate per unit	Total(Nrs)
1.Fish sale	Kg	2200	250	5,50,000
2.Fish consumed	Kg	100	250	25,000
3.Fish given free to others	Kg	200	250	50,000
Total income				6,25,000
Gross margin(Nrs)				-3,46,000

8. Fish disease

8.1 Do you have any problem of fish disease?

= no any disease problem

 

                                      Report prepared on following data

A visit has been made on date 29^th kartik,2075 on KAPILVSTU INTEGRATED AGRO FARM located in banganga municipality-1, nibuwa, kapilvastu. This agrofarm have 6 shareholder and established in 32 bigha area in which 6 bigha is for fish farming and remaining for vegetable cultivation, cattle farming and housing. Questionare have been done with Mr. Rahul Banjade( one of share holder).

This agrofarm is tender type in which fish are previously present in the pond so only 11,000 fish seed are bought in first year. This agrofarm have polyculture type of farming and use both organic and inorganic fertilizer in the pond. Silver carp, common carp, bighead, naini and rohu type of fish are reared in pond. They stock fish in month of falgun to jestha and harvest in month of mangsir to magh having cultural periods of nine month. There is no any mean of aerators used. Banana tree and barseem are cultivated along pond side for fodder to crasp carp. This agrofarm have many equipments such as power trailer, generators, pumpset, mahajal, tractor etc which are expensive and alongside with feeds, fertilizer, labour etc. make more variable cost of Rs.9,71,000 and selling revenue of Rs.6,25,000 with negative gross margins of Rs.3,46,000.

Conclusion

This KAPILVASTU INTEGRATED AGRO FARM is newly opened business farm whose motive is to earn income through fish farming. In their first year they have got loss gross margin of about Rs.3,46,000 which is worst according to bussiness point of view. But this farm have high potential of producing fish as new equipment have been bought from India. They have modern aerators which they will used in successive year and have mahajal and many more for harvesting fish. They have made plan of making feeds in their own farm which will reduce variable cost and increase gross margins. They have made plan of bringing fish seeds from renowned hatcheries and also made a plan for separate farming of grass crap from other fish species. They have plan of establishing own fish fresh house for selling fish meat.

 

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