Economics of Fish Production in Bharatpur District, Rajasthan, India
Economics of Fish Production in Bharatpur District, Rajasthan, India
Date
2013
Authors
Kumar, Brijesh
Biradar, R.S
Debnath, Biswajit
Sharma, Rama
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Society of Fisheries Technologists (India)Cochin
Abstract
Fish culture in Rajasthan is a promising sector and
the potential for growth in the state is still far from
exhaustion. Among the 32 districts of this state,
Bharatpur has good potential for fish culture. The
present study is based on a cross-sectional primary
data collected from 60 farmers from this district
through random sampling method under two different
categories viz., farmers having own ponds (n=30)
and farmers with leased ponds (n=30). Besides,
analysis was carried out in small sized (<1 ha) and
large sized farms (>1 ha) for both categories for a
better understanding of production economics. The
study indicated that fish farmers followed a low
input based traditional type of fish farming. Higher
average cost per ha was observed in smaller farm size
(< 1 ha) for both owned and leased ponds. It was
observed to be Rs. 57 129 and Rs. 65 774 for owned
and leased small ponds against Rs. 46 194 and Rs. 24
950 for owned and leased large ponds. Level of
productivity also followed a similar trend and it was
higher in smaller ponds for both owned (2 538 kg
ha-1 yr-1) and leased ponds (2 270 kg ha-1 yr-1) against
the productivity of large ponds (1 230 kg ha-1 yr-1and
1 568 kg ha-1 yr-1 for owned and leased ponds
respectively). Benefit cost ratio (BCR) was found to
be 2.19 and 2.28 for owned and leased ponds
respectively. BCR was higher in small owned ponds
(2.34) when compared to small leased ponds (2.12).
In the case of large sized ponds, it was higher in
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Keywords
Fish production economics, fish productivity, accounting profitability, economic profitability, benefit cost ratio
Citation
Fishery Tech 50(2):180-184