VISIT TO INTEGRATED AGRO FARM

VISIT TO INTEGRATED AGRO FARM

A visit has been done on date 29^th kartik 2075 on KAPILVASTU INTEGRATED AGRO FARM located in banganga municipality-1,Nibuwa,kapilvastu,Nepal. Questioners has been done with one of the member of integrated agro farm Mr. Rahul Banjade of age 27 and currently a bachelor passed student in management course. For further details anyone can contact him in number 9861698726. . Agro farm have 2 years experience on fish farming. Agrofarm had rented 32 bigha land in which fish farming is done in 6 bigha and remaining is for cattle farming and vegetable cultivation.

VISIT TO INTEGRATED AGRO FARM

Pond information

Total pond area is about 6 bigha i.e. 120 kattha which comprises of 6 ponds of about 1 bigha ie.20 kattha having pond depth of about 15 ft. The main source of water for pond is rain water and irrigation canal. About 50 kg/pond lime is used before fish stocking and total of about 300kg lime is used before fish stocking.

Pond inputs

Integrated Agrofarm have polyculture type of culture system i.e. cow farming and fish farming and vegetable farming. Cow farming provides dung to fish farming as form of organic manure and fish farming provide pond water rich in manure to vegetable farming and biproducts of vegetable or itself vegetables is utilized by cow farming. SILVER CARP(Hypophthalmichthys molitrix),BIGHEAD CARP(Aristichthys nobilis),ROHU(Labeo rohita),NAINI(Cirrhinus mrigala),COMMON CARP(Cyprinus carpio),GRASS CARP(Ctenopharyngodon idella). Fish seed is procure from both private hatcheries(main,FROM BAHADURGUNJ AND BHAIRAHAWA) and government hatchery. No actual data of stocking density is obtained because they have bought these pond from previous owner and pond already consists of many number of fish but Intergrated agrofarm have used 11,000 fish seeds in 6 bigha area. They have culture period of about 9 months. Fish are stocked in falgun to jestha and harvest from mangsir to magh. Stocking size of fish is about 30 to 50gm. Private feed suppliers are main source for procure feeds. About 2-3 tractors/pond per year of organic manure(cow dung) is used in pond which is about 2500 kg.

                        Amount of DAP used is more than urea. 300 kg of DAP And 120kg urea is used in fish pond per year. There are no use of aerators.

Feed

Mainly bran(rice bi-products), pina(oil bi-products) and floating type feed is used. About 2 ton of Bran+pina and 400kg of Floating type feed is supplied to fish per year with feeding frequency of 1 time a day with feeding rate of 10-15kg/10000 fish of 30-70mm in length of fish and 1.5-2.5kg/10000 fish of more than 100mm length fish. Feed are directly throw in pond in one place. For GRASS CRAP Banana leaf and Bar-seem grass is used.

Production

Total production of about 2.5 ton ie. 2500kg was done in which 100kg are used for consumption and 200kg are given free to others and total sale of 2200 kg was made.

VISIT TO INTEGRATED AGRO FARM

Economics

A.      VARIABLE COSTS

4 labours are kept for fish farming at the rate of Rs.7,000/month and annually cost Rs.3,36,000. The cost for 300kg lime is Rs.3000. 11,000 fish seed are used which charge Rs.1 per seed cost Rs.11,000. Rate for 1kg pina is about Rs.35 and rate for 1kg Bran is Rs.24 and for floating feed is Rs.62/kg and total cost for 1 ton pina,1 ton bran and 400kg floating feed is Rs.35,000 ,Rs.22,000 and Rs.24,000 respectively. The cost for 120kg urea(Rs.18/kg) is Rs.2,160 and 300kg DAP(Rs.22/kg) is Rs.6,600. Organic manure is free of cost as it is obtained from cattle farming. The total cost for equipment s consisting cemented vessel, tray,  mahajal, power trailer and pump-sets is Rs.4,39,200. Source of water is from rain water and irrigation canal which is generated from diesel fuel. Bolero pickup is used for transportation. Bolero and generator   consumed 200litre diesel at rate of Rs.90/litre and cost Rs.18,000. No means of electricity is required as generator is used in fish farming. No medicine and chemicals are used in ponds yet. Land lease for 6 bigha land annually is Rs.75,000. Integrated agro farm is run by shareholder without lending loan from bank so there is no any interest on working capital.

TOTAL VARIABLE COSTS =Rs. 9,71,000

B.      INCOME

Total fish sale of about 2200kg is done at the rate of Rs.250/kg which costs about Rs.5,50,000. About 100kg fish is consumed and 200kg fish is given free to others which costs Rs25,000 and Rs.50,000 respectively.

TOTAL INCOME = Rs.6,25,000       GROSS MARGINS  =- Rs.3,46,000

8. Fish disease

There is no any fish disease or fish problem have noticed yet.

                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.