Study on Existing Technology and Knowledge on Aquaculture by Fish Farmers in Gomastapur Upazila of Chapai Nawabgonj District, Bangladesh

摘要

A total of 150 farmers from three unions in Gomastapur upazila under Chapai Nawabgonj district were selectedfor determination of their aquaculture technology and knowledge. In this study, 83% of the fish farmers were adoptedwith extensive technology and rest 17% with semi-intensive technology. The aquaculture knowledge consisted of 6levels such as, remembering, understanding, analyzing, synthesizing, evaluating and creating. The aquacultureknowledge of the fish farmers on different aspect of pond fish culture practices such as, pond biology, pondpreparation, species selection and stocking density, water colour monitoring, pond fertilization, feed and feeding,disease control, harvesting and restocking, risk management and marketing revealed that most of the fish farmersbelonged to low knowledge category. A few portion of the fish farmers had high knowledge. Most of the fish farmershad relatively better score on the first two levels (remembering and understanding) of knowledge. The farmers hadlow score on the analyzing, synthesizing, evaluating and creating component of knowledge. Among the personalcharacteristics of the farmers’ education, extension media contact and aquaculture training experience wereobserved to be significant and positively related with their fisheries knowledge. But age, total income, religiousaffiliation and family size of the respondents had no relation with aquaculture knowledge.