SUCCESS STORY
Mrs.
Sufola Biswas is an inhabitant of Keuratola village under Laskar Union of
Paikgacha Upazilla in the district of Khulna which is located in the south–West
region of Bangladesh. She was only a housewife and busy in household works. Her
husband was unable to earn money for bearing the expenses of four family
members and day by day they had to pass through very poor livelihoods. In this
situation Mrs. Sufola thought about shrimp farming in her neighbors` land by
taking lease beside her homestead in 0.67 hectare since 2011. But due to lack
of proper knowledge on shrimp farming maximum time she didn`t get good
production and profit margin was very poor, sometimes even loss also. Day by
day condition was getting worsened and was very hopeless. At this time she came
to know about modern technology of shrimp farming. Environment friendly and
planned farming technology is being provided by Aquaculture for Income and
Nutrition (AIN) Project of WorldFish-Bangladesh within the financial assistance
of USAID.
In the beginning of 2013 Mrs. Sufola took part in
the training on Modified Traditional Technology (MTT) method of shrimp farming
from the activity of AIN Project. Now it is clear to Mrs. Sufola 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 didn’t get expected production.
Following
traditional culture system she could produce maximum 180-200 kg shrimp in the
previous years but following Modified Traditional Technology (MTT), last year
(2014) she had able to produce 290 Kg shrimp, 185Kg whitefish from her 0.67
hectare pond which worth taka 1 Lac 78 thousand. On the other hand, this year
(2015) she has produced 419 Kg shrimp and 145 kg whitefish from that pond which
total value taka 2 Lac 16 thousand.
Now Mrs.
Sufola Biswas is very please to produce more shrimp from her pond as well as
increases income and rescues from the loan. She is sharing her experiences with
her neighbors and they are very interested to involve themselves in shrimp
farming like Mrs. Sufola. On the other hand, Mrs. Sufola is very happy and
confident concerning modern and planned shrimp farming technology.
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