Aquaculture Success Stories CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER AQUACULTURE

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Aquaculture
Success Stories
Radheyshyam
G. S. Saha
H. K. De
Odisha
Aquaculture Success Stories
Dr. Radheyshyam, Principal Scientist
Dr. G. S. Saha, Senior Scientist
Dr. H. K. De, Senior Scientist
CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER AQUACULTURE
(Indian Council of Agricultural Research)
P.O. Kausalyaganga, Bhubaneswar-751002, Odisha
Aquaculture Success Stories
Year of publication : 2012
Published by : Dr. P. Jayasankar
Director
Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture
Kausalyaganga, Bhubaneswar - 751002
Odisha, India
Edited by : Dr. Radheyshyam, Principal Scientist
Dr. G. S. Saha, Senior Scientist
Dr. H. K. De, Senior Scientist
ISBN : 978-81-924918-4-4
© 2012, Director, Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Kausalyaganga,
Bhubaneswar-751002
Printed at : Capital Business Service & Consultancy, B-51, Sahid Nagar, Bhubaneswar
[email protected]
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M E S S A G E
Aquaculture is gaining importance within India and globally for
its contribution not only to food and nutritional security, but also
to livelihood security. India with its vast inland aquatic resources
has high potential for contributing to increased fish production
through aquaculture and create/improve livelihoods especially
in the rural areas. However, this potential is yet to be fully
harnessed.
There is growing realization of the lack of adequate diffusion of
scientific information/technologies from research to the farming
community. At the same time, lack of information flow from farmers to researchers on the
problems/issues, is constraining in the conduct of demand driven research, resulting in a
huge gap in the quality of research output required at the farm level. The planned Farmers'
First project of ICAR will hopefully address this disconnect and would enable farmer-led
research which in the long run would help empower farming community.
In the absence of access to modern technologies, the farmers often experiment with their
limited resources and traditional knowledge and come up with practices/technologies
that are appropriate which in turn become popular among the farming community in
similar agro-climatic zones. These farmers' innovations need to be nurtured, promoted
and complemented with scientific inputs where necessary. Organization of Farm
Innovators' Meets and the documentation of success stories are gaining momentum in
recent years. I am happy to learn that the Central Institute Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA),
Bhubaneswar has organized 'Aquaculture Innovators’ Meet' creating an environment for
the farmers to share their innovations with scientists and get their time tested innovations
recognized.
This publication 'Aquaculture Success Stories' documents in details the innovative
aquaculture practices perfected by the farmers from Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha
states. Formal science needs to acknowledge this wisdom and strengthen grass root level
innovations.
This book will be a very good source of reference material on aquaculture innovations and
will be useful to researchers, students, entrepreneurs and policy makers.
M. Vijay Gupta
31st March, 2012
World Food Prize Laureate
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The Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA),
Bhubaneswar started its journey as a full fledged institute in the
year 1987 and is celebrating 25th year of its glorious existence
during April 1, 2011- March 31, 2012. During the last two and a
half decades of devoted research, the institute has developed
several epoch-making technologies which have revolutionized
freshwater aquaculture sector in the country. India presently
produces 8.1 million tons of fish per annum of which almost half
is contributed by the freshwater aquaculture sector. With the
stagnating catches from natural waters, aquaculture sector bears the major responsibility
for ensuring fish production in the country. The central focus of CIFA is to develop farmer-
friendly production technologies of major carps, minor carps, catfish, prawn, ornamental
fish, murrels, Anabas, pabda and molluscs. The institute is also spending considerable
efforts in transfer of technology, training of trainers as well as farmers and policy advocacy
in important areas of aquaculture. The Institute is committed to implement the motto
FARMER FIRST in its letter and spirit.
The Institute had organized 'Aquaculture Innovators’ Meet' on 10 July 2011 with an objective
to share the farmers' innovations with scientists and also to felicitate them. The meet was
a huge success. The compilation of success stories christened as "Aquaculture Innovators"
has become popular among the researchers as well as the planners. So much so that we
soon ran out of stock and soft copy had to be uploaded in website of CIFA.
The present compilation, 'Aquaculture Success Stories', is the second in series and is more
varied and rich in content. Let me place on records my gratefulness to Hon'ble Secretary,
DARE and Director General, ICAR Dr. S. Ayyappan and DDG (Fisheries) Dr. B. Meenakumari
for their constant encouragement. My compliments to Dr Radheyshyam, Principal Scientist;
Dr. G S Saha, Senior Scientist and Dr. H K De, Senior Scientist for their efforts in bringing
out the compilation on the occasion of 26th Annual Day of CIFA.
Bhubaneswar
1st April, 2012 P Jayasankar
Phone : [phone] (O), 2465423 (R), Fax : [phone]
E-mail : [email protected], [email protected], Website : http://www.cifa.in

P R E F A C E
The Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA), a constituent of Indian Council
of Agricultural Research (ICAR), a premier research institute devoted to freshwater
aquaculture research and development in the country started its journey in the year 1987
and is observing Silver Jubilee this year. During the last 25 years of dedicated research, the
institute has developed several epoch-making technologies which have revolutionized
freshwater aquaculture sector in the country. The Council is embarking upon a new project
called ' FARMER FIRST' that seeks to strengthen Farmer-Scientist linkage with focus on
innovation, feedback, stakeholder participation and new institutional configuration. It
would enable farmer-led research which in the long run would help empower farming
community.
The Institute had organized 'Aquaculture Innovators’ Meet' on 10 July 2011 with an objective
of sharing farmers' innovations with scientists and also to felicitate them. The meet was a
huge success and a compilation of success stories christened as ‘Aquaculture Innovators’
was prepared. We are happy to present the 'Aquaculture Success Stories' which is second
in the series. The first one 'Aquaculture Innovators’ has been well accepted by the readers
and in view of popular demand the soft copy has been uploaded in Institute website. The
present volume contains eleven case studies from Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha.
The cases document how innovative package of practices in the field of freshwater
aquaculture has enabled the farmers obtain higher yield. Each case has been visited by a
team of experts several times and due care is taken in presenting an in depth view of the
practices adopted by the farmers. There is an urgent need to document such innovations
and share with others.
The compilation would serve as a store house of information on field level constraints for
which researchers may devise appropriate solutions. It is hoped that the present volume
will be equally popular among the readers and would go a long way in promoting grass
roots level innovations. The fact documented in these success stories are solely the views
of fish farmers and authors.
Radheyshyam
1st April, 2012 G S Saha
CIFA, Kausalyaganga H K De
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Livestock-horticulture-grass-agro forestry-fish integration at 1
Pokharbhinda Village, Kushinagar in Eastern Uttar Pradesh
Radheyshyam, Tarun Shyam, G. S. Saha and S. K. Sinha
Horticulture-fish integration in newly constructed pond 22
G. S. Saha, Radheyshyam, A. K. Behera, Lekha Safui and Geeta Saha
Mass spawn production through multiple carp breeding and carp seed 32
rearing in succession using sub-leased village community ponds
Radheyshyam, Tarun Shyam and G. S. Saha
Carp fry-fingerling-yearling-food fish production in succession in 47
village community ponds and spawn production in own hatchery
Radheyshyam, Tarun Shyam, G.S.Saha and Kedarnath
Rural farmers towards industrial aquaculturist in partnership 60
Radheyshyam
Conservation and multiple uses of water in mid Himalayan region 78
of Uttarakhand - a success story
Suresh Chandra, S.K. Srivastava, S.K. Gupta, Prem Kumar, N.N. Pandey,
R.S.Patiyal and P.C. Mahanta
Grow out carp polyculture by SC/ST women of Palsaguda, 85
Boudh, Odisha - a case study
H. K. De, D. N. Chattopadhyay, Radheyshyam, G. S. Saha,
A. K. Dash, T. S. Satpati and S. Pal
Freshwater prawn entrepreneurship 94
Prasanti Mishra
Freshwater prawn culture by the women self-help groups in 99
Balipatna block of Khurda district, Odisha a successful venture
Prasanti Mishra, Nirupama Panda, S. Behera, Lekha Safui and B. Behera
Pulse crop-fish integration in Shirhir village of Allahabad 104
Suresh Chandra
Transforming life through community aquaculture: 112
a case of tribal village in Odisha
Nagesh Kumar Barik
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Livestock-horticulture-grass-agro forestry-fish integration at
Pokharbhinda Village, Kushinagar in Eastern Uttar Pradesh
Radheyshyam, Tarun Shyam*, G.S.Saha and S.K.Sinha**
Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture
Kausayalganga, Bhubaneswar-751002, India
*KIIT University, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar
** Office of DDF, Gorakhpur Division, Gorakhpur, UP
Introduction
Integrated farming system is one of the best methods for maximizing animal and plant
protein production through optimum use of land, water and waste resources at sustainable
level. In this system many sub-systems are involved, wastes of one subsystem act as input
for another subsystem. Thus, virtually nothing is wasted and ecological balance is
maintained. A large variety of products are produced at one place to meet the needs of
undernourished populace. It uplifts livelihood, improves food security, poverty alleviation
and generates income and employment in rural areas. In this regard Central Institute of
Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) is pioneering in research and development efforts on a
wide range of region- and resource-specific technologies to enhance fish production.
However, increasing price of prepared feeds contribute almost 60-70% of operation cost of
the fish production. It needs priority attention. To mitigate the problems CIFA has
developed various resource- and location-specific integrated fish farming models
appropriate for adoption in different agro climatic zones of the country. These developed
integrated fish farming (IFF) models have been disseminated to extension functionaries of
State Fisheries Departments, State Agricultural Universities, Fisheries Colleges,
Universities, Krishi Vigyan Kendras, bankers, researchers, non-governmental
organizations, entrepreneurs etc. through various means. They in turn, popularize need
based IFF models and skills to the end users for sustainable adoption. In this process many
entrepreneurs/rural youths have adopted need-based IFF model to generate additional
family income, self employment and improve nutritional security. They have their own
stories of success to express. The governing factors for such variable successes, modus of
technology adoption and economic profitability need to be popularized among other fellow
farmers to follow suit. However, it invariably remained undocumented. In view of this a
success case of Mr. Satya Prakash Singh on livestock-horticulture-grass-agro forestry-fish
integration at Pokharbhinda village is documented in this communication. Modus of
operandi of resource specific standard technologies and economic profitability may inspire
local farmers to adopt these techniques in their fields in a sustainable way for improving
their livelihood.
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