Key Factors Influencing Annual Income from Commercial Fish Farming and Efficiency of Different Fish Marketing Channels of Assam: Insight from Biswanath District

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume V, Issue VII, July 2018 | ISSN 2321–2705

Key Factors Influencing Annual Income from Commercial Fish Farming and Efficiency of Different Fish Marketing Channels of Assam: Insight from Biswanath District

Abhijit Hazarika^#1, Aditya Gogoi^#2

 ^#1 Research Scholar, Department of Commerce, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India
^#2 Research Scholar, Department of Economics, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India

Abstract – Since the time immemorial the human evolution has been witnessed to take place at the closest proximity of the water sources, to fulfil their basic needs of water and food. With time this reliance on the water resources has paved the way to use them as the way to earn means of support for the humans in addition to the fulfilment of the basic needs of food. Fishes have gained its status as the most important source of human nutrients. Sea and river fishes are the major food source of the ever increasing human population of the world. Various earlier works have already established the fact that with the right techniques and vision, fish farming can turn into a very noble and profitable venture. Being blessed with tropical climatic condition fishing seems to be one of the age-old practices in the state of Assam. Despite of the huge potentiality in fish farming with available ample water resources, the contribution of fishery sector to the State Gross Domestic Product (SGDP) of Assam is still very nominal. This present work is an effort to get some deeper insight about the fish farming activity in the newly created Biswanath district of Assam, with the objective to pinpoint different factors effecting the outcome, measured in terms income earned, of some selected commercial fish farming units of the study area. In addition to this a detailed analysis of efficiency level of various marketing and distribution channels of these fish farming units is also tried to investigate.

Keyword: fish farming, net income, cost, profitable venture, marketing and distribution channels.

I. INTRODUCTION

Owing to the rapid population growth accompanied by a large numbers of malnourished people all over the globe, especially in developing countries like India, meeting the demand for food commodities becomes a major worldwide matter of concern among the policy makers. The same holds goods in Assam also. In such a dismal situation regarding job market of the state, a handful of people from the population has come forward and invested their time and energy in what is known as fish farming. Of late fish farming has become a desirable job among many of the educated unemployed youths and of Assam, due to its wide range of possibilities. With the right techniques and vision, fish farming can turn into a very noble and profitable venture (Goswami, 2001).

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