Prospects and problems of Integrated Fish farming in West Bengal
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https://doi.org/10.53555/jaz.v42i01.5096Keywords:
Food security, Rice-fish farming, rice-duckery farmingAbstract
Integrated Fish farming (IFF) is a system in which different farming components like crop, livestock, horticulture, poultry, fish are combined together with fish as the chief component so that optimum resource use can be made by creating mutually beneficial cycle. West Bengal has a huge prospects and potential for integrated fish farming because of its vast network of water bodies. The present study is an attempt to highlight the prospects and problems associated with practicing integrated fish farming by the small and marginal fishers of West Bengal. In order to understand the prospects of Integrated Fish farming in West Bengal different studies highlighting the practices of integrated fish farming was analysed. Although, IFF has huge prospects in West Bengal but it is also facing several challenges with regard to price fluctuations, lack of infrastructure, poor management skills, lack of knowledge.
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