SUCCESS STORY
Mr. Halim Shekh
is a marginal shrimp farmer son of late Mr. Kausar Ali Shekh, an inhabitant of
the village of Tokia under Godaipur union of Paikgacha Upazilla in the district
of Khulna which is located in the South-West region of Bangladesh. He had been
involved in shrimp farming since 2003 in his 1 hectare own land and followed
traditional culture system. Due to poor farming knowledge he harvested very
minimum yield in the previous years and profit margin was very poor, sometimes
no profit or evens loss also.
Mr. Halim
didn’t have knowledge on improve shrimp farming and he didn’t try even to
learn. In the beginning of 2014, he decided to join with the activities of
Aquaculture for Income and Nutrition (AIN) Project of WorldFish-Bangladesh
funded by USAID. After joining he came to know a new technology namely Modified
Traditional Technology (MTT) which is also affordable for the marginal farmer.
Now it is clear to Mr. Halim that the unplanned traditional shrimp culture
practice that ignores pond preparation techniques, stocking density, water
quality, feed management, other management strategies which cause disease of
shrimp especially viral disease and so many environmental problems so that he
doesn’t get expected production.
Mr. Halim
learnt a lot about MTT culture techniques from Greater Harvest and Economic
Returns from shrimp (GHERS) Initiative during farmer group meeting (every 15
days interval). For getting good production and quality shrimp he maintains
proper stocking density, water quality, timely feeding, timely checking shrimp
health and other necessary management practices. Following traditional culture
system he could produce maximum 250-300 kg shrimp/year in the previous years
but following Modified Traditional Technology (MTT), last year (2014) he had
able to produce 480 Kg shrimp, 60 Kg harina
and 300 Kg whitefish from his 1 hectare same pond which worth taka 2 Lac 93 thousand. On the
other hand, this year (2015) he has produced 815 Kg shrimp, 50Kg harina and 460 kg whitefish from that
pond which total value taka 3 Lac 90 thousand which is more production than the
previous years.
Mr. Halim,
who had never made any profit, has made huge profit this year. As a result,
surrounding farmers have already decided that they will apply MTT technology
from next year. Now Mr. Halim is
interested to lease more lands for shrimp culture expansion that will be
created job opportunities for the unemployed youths in his village. Mr. Halim
shares his experiences with his neighbor farmers and outside of his village.
Now Mr. Halim is delighted and confident about shrimp culture and very happy that he is getting bumper
production now and as a successful farmer he feels proud of it. ‘It has been
possible basically on account of the training program of Aquaculture for Income and Nutrition (AIN) Project of
WorldFish-Bangladesh funded by USAID. He said, adding more profit is possible through MTT method of shrimp
farming. Finally, he has thanked to all associated with the AIN Project to
assistance the knowledge of improved farming technique which helped her to
increase the production as well as development of his family livelihoods.
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