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I Background:-
Population in Washim district is engaged mostly in agriculture.
Farming is major source of
income to the rural people of the district. Under farming 90% of
the area comes under dryland farming. These dry land farmers faced
natural calamities almost every alternate year
.Farmers have taken single crop due to unavailability of
protective irrigation. Taking in to
consideration the geographical condition & the rain fall of
Maharashtra region, the Govt. ofMaharashtra has undertaken
programme of integrated water management on large scale fromlast 10
years. Among the different soil conservation measures and National
Horticulture
Mission, farm ponds have been established for water conservation
& water harvesting. In such
farm ponds, water are available near about eight to nine months,
the water was used for
critical irrigation. This untapped potential has been utilized
for Magur farming.
II Technology / process which was intervened for its success
About One hundred Eighty farmers were provided long duration ten
days training on
aquaculture aspects and thirty farmers has been trained under
magur farming. All thesetrainings were conducted under National
Fisheries Development Board, Hyderabad. The
programme was implemented during 2007-08 and 2008-09. During the
training programmedemonstrations were organised at Fisheries unit
at KVK. After completion of training farmer
has provided Magur fish seed as a input along with the feed. To
minimize the feed cost & toincrease the income from the small
area the farmer has provided floating duck shed & Ducks
of Khaki Campbell so that he can earn money by selling the duck
eggs. The litters of ducks
are used for the production of planktons so that the feed cost
was half. Detail subjects which
were taught during training are given below.
III Effect of the technology/ process on
y ProductionAfter having the training all the selected farmers
were provided fish seed free of cost under
DBT sponsored programme of "Magur Farming in existing farm
ponds". Each farmers wassupplied with 2000 fingerlings of Clarias
batrachus. Some farmers were supplied IMC fish
seed under KVK FLD programme. Farmers received different levels
of yield.
y ProductivityIt was observed that the average productivity of
magur was 1098 Kg/Ha and average
productivity of IMC in polyculture was 481 Kg/Ha. Overall
productivity of the pond was
1580 Kg/Ha. The productivity of inland fisheries in Washim
District is 606 Kg/Ha.Therefore, we have received 260% higher
productivity in small ponds. By intervention withappropriate
technology.
y Economic gainThe economic gains were calculated. Net profit
varied between 6950 to 19770 on unit basis.
It varied between 17530 Rs/Ha to 182720 Rs/Ha. Howver it was
compared with Cost to
benefit ratio and it varied between 1: 2.02 to 1: 3.44. It was
found that in monoculture of
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magur Shri Sambhaji Wankhede Guruji of Anchal received heighest
C:B ratio of 1:3.44.
Under polyculture Dr.Sanap of Malegaon received C: B ratio of 1:
2.41 during a period of oneyear.
y Suitability in the existing farming/cropping systemIn washim
district the available aquaculture potenstial is about 5032 Ha in
the form ofirrigation percolation and village tanks. There are 86
fish cooperative societies registered inthe district doin the fish
culture by extensive method. It is worth to note that all the
fisheries
is done in existing irrigation tanks and percolation tanks. The
data referred above for districtaverage productivity is taken from
the fisheries in these type of water bodies. The practice
used in the present success story is most suitable for small
water bodies preferably within one
hectare. However, with proper management and resources it can be
successfully replicated in
larger bodies also.
y Acceptance of technology/process in terms of views of the
farmersThe technology is adopted with full spirit by the selected
farmers. The tendency to use
limited water for crops also is being supported by the activity
of aquaculture. Thereforeobjective of having rain water harvesting
and its restricted use for achieving the higher water
productivity is also achieved.
y Horizontal spreadDue to continuous news in different media
like star maza, E TV , newspapers like agrowon,
Deshonnati etc many farmers have started thinking about the
activity in Soil and WaterConservation related farm ponds
constructed under different schemes of Government of
India. National Horticulture Mission is also encouraging farmers
to have such ponds linedwith 500 micron Geomembrane film for
reduced percolation and checked evaporation by
means of use of certain chemicals and Thermocol sheets. To date
about 150-200 ponds arefeasible for replication of the success
story. Out of that in Manora tahsil 7 tanks have been
used by the farmers for fishculture. In Mangrulpir tahsil 6
farmers have converted tanks forfisheries. In Karanja Tahsil 9
farmers and 7 farmers in Malegaon Tahsil have done fisheries
at their own level of knowledge and without support of any
external agency. They need to be
guided for further progress in this area.
y Marketing channelsThere is a lot of demand of fish in local
markets established at Risod and Malegaon. The
deficit demand is being furnished from Nanded and Parbhani
District. Therefore, for fewyears there is local market available
for the Magur and IMC. People prefer fresh fish andtherefore the
Magur is fetching price of 80-120 Rs/Kg, the price of IMC is
between 60-80/Kg
y Linkage with technologyThe technology is being taken from CIFA
since long time.
