SUCCESS STORY
Writer :
Md. Ashraful Hoque
Technical Specialist
USAID-AIN Project
WorldFish-Bangladesh
Mr. Salim Hossain
son of Mr. Abdur Rob Sardar is a self-motivated farmer of Kharia Village under
Laskar Union of Paikgacha Upazilla in the district of Khulna which is located
in the south–West region of Bangladesh. He has been involved in shrimp farming
since 2002 in 0.93 hectare own land and followed traditional culture system.
But due to poor farming knowledge he didn`t get good production in the previous
years from his pond. But due to lack of proper knowledge on shrimp farming
maximum time he 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 he 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
with the financial assistance of USAID.
Now it is clear
to Mr. Salim that the unplanned traditional shrimp culture practice that
ignores pond preparation techniques, stocking density, water quality, feeding
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.
In the beginning
of 2012 Mr. Salim took part in the training on Better Management Practice (BMP)
method of shrimp farming from the activities of AIN project. Though Mr. Salim
not able to get used to practice improved farming systems in the previous
year’s perfectly but from beginning of the year of 2016 he had been started his
farming systems followed by improved management namely Better Management
Practice (BMP). Now Mr. Salim applying knowledge that he earned from the
training concerning preparing pond in a proper way, keeping proper water
condition, applying feed, lime and fertilizer on a regular basis, stocking SPF
PLs, maintaining the stocking density etc, following BMP method, last year
(2014) he had able to produce 250 Kg shrimp and 170 Kg whitefish from his 0.93
hectare pond which worth taka 152000. On the other hand, this year (2016) he
has produced 617 Kg shrimp ( 573 Kg SPF shrimp and 44 Kg Non-SPF shrimp) and 600
kg whitefish from that pond which total value taka 370,750 where total
expenditure was taka 61,714 and net profit was 309,036.
Now, he is very
happy for getting bumper production as well as more income and as a successful
farmer he feels proud of it. He has expressed that it has been possible
basically on account of the training program organized by AIN project. He has
also been articulated that more profit is possible through BMP method of shrimp
farming. He mentioned behind his success BMP technology SPF shrimp PLs are the
key factors because of SPF shrimp PLs are faster growth, more disease resistant
and less risk.
This farmer, who had never made any profit before but now has
been getting excellent profit through planned farming system of BMP from the
previous years. As a result, surrounding farmers have already decided that they
will apply BMP technology from next year. Mr. Salim shares his experiences with
his neighbor farmers and outside of his village. Now he is very happy and
delighted & confident about shrimp culture.
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