Exploring The Future Prospects In Fisheries Sector of West Bengal Suman Dey, S.N.Ojha and Sutanu Karmakar*
ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai-400061
Introduction
Status and trends in Fisheries
• West Bengal is such a state in the country blessed with all kinds of fishery resources, plenty of water, most congenial agro-climate for aquafarming . • Lack of technological upgradation or adoption of modern technology in aquafarming or fishing, resulted fisheries sector in the state to remains to its almost virgin state yet, in terms of its unlimited unharnessed potentiality of development.
• West Bengal, being Gate Way of fish loving seven North Eastern and three Eastern states, besides adjoining countries like Bhutan, Bangaldesh and Nepal can play a pivotal role in Fisheries Business Promotion in these states.
INLAND FISH PRODUCTION (IN lakh ton) 15
R² = 0.656
14.5 14.38 14
y = 0.2989x + 12.337
13.92
13.5 13.38
INLAND
13.26 13
Linear (INLAND)
12.9
12.5
12.46
Aquaculture in large water bodies and fish tourism
12
11.5
2009-10
2010-11
2011-12
2012-13
2013-14
2014-15
2.5
1. To understand the existing structure ,functions and the thrust areas of the Fisheries organization under the Government of West Bengal. 2. To assess the status of fisheries & its prospects in the state and to identify the factors affecting fish production.
Deep sea fishing & mariculture
Area under scientific/commercial culture/exploitation Lakh ha)
Present production (Lakh MT) 2014-15
MARINE
2.
Impounded culture area
3.77
Open water system
1.75
1.26
12.73
Factors affecting fish production in West Bengal
0
2009-10
2010-11
2011-12
2012-13
2013-14
2014-15
18000 16000
To find the factors affecting fish production some variables (seed production, available water area, demand, no. of hatcheries) were selected and it was correlated and regressed with fish production using the SPSS software. Correlation Matrix
14000
Sustainable production/yield potentiality (Lakh MT) estimated
12000 10000 TARGET
6000
16.44
ACHIEVEMENT
2000
4.26
0
3.
Impounded brackish water
0.8
4.
Open brackish water.
1.3
5.
Marine water (open)
158 kms
0.2
1.64
Destructive exploitation Limited to 50-75 km
2009-10
4.0
2010-11
2011-12
2012-13
0.85 1.98
2013-14 2014-15
Association of variables with fish production Pearson correlation
4.7
EXPORT TRENDS (Crore Rs.) Nil
4000
Wings of Fisheries Department of WB
2500 2000 1500
West Bengal Fisheries Corporation Ltd. (WBFC)
State Fisheries Development Corporation Ltd. (SFDC)
•
X5
1
X2
.326
1
X3
.888**
.446
1
X4
.871**
.332
.806**
1
X5
.049
.889**
.227
.088
1
Regression model
2014-15
2013-14
2012-13
2011-12
0
Model
R
R Square
Adjusted R Square
Std. Error of the Estimate
1
.938a
.880
.846
22969.401
a. Predictors: (Constant), X5, X4, X3, X2
SECTOR WISE EMPLOYMENT GENERATION IN FISHERIES SECTOR
Recommendations
12000000
8000000
• To increase the area under fish culture the govt. should collaborate with FFDA or MNREGA programmes and should strengthen aquaculture extension and market- led extension in the state. • To increase the domestic demand for fishes in the state the govt. should tie up with the media to publicize and create interest within the people. • Henceforth, to cater these problems the govt. should redesign the organizational structure of fisheries sector accordingly.
6000000
Lack of professionals in the department and inefficient extension network. • Lack of infrastructure development like cold storage, marketing structure, roads, transportation etc. • No effective fishermen’s association in W.B. for the improvement of this kind of activities. • Leasing policy, disease, poaching etc.
X4
X1
500
10000000
Problems
X3
X1 = Fish production, X2 =Seed production, X3 = Available water area, X4 =Demand , X5 = No. of hatcheries
YEAR
West Bengal Fishermen's Cooperative Federation Ltd. (BENFISH)
X2
1000
Department of Fisheries, Govt. of West Bengal
Directorate of Fisheries, Govt. of West Bengal
X1
**Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
VALUE(CR)
2000-01
Structure of Fisheries Dept. of W.B.
3000
2010-11
N.A.
2009-10
N.A.
2004-05
Fallow /under utilized
2003-04
5.94
2002-03
Waterlogged/ Watershed etc.
2001-02
7.
VALUE (IN CR)
3500
2008-09
Nil
2007-08
2844 km2
2006-07
Mariculture
2005-06
6.
Packaging
Modern fish markets
0.5
4000
Destructive exploitation
Modern hatcheries for fish/shellfish seed
Fish feed
Expon. (MARINE)
1
8000
1.
Ornamental fisheries
Investment Opportunities
1.5
Aquatic resources of W.B. Area available (Lakh ha)
Aquatic animal/fish health and aquatic environment management products
R² = 0.038 y = 1.8477e-0.009x
2
FISH SEED PRODUCTION TREND (Millions)
Resource type
Post harvest processing and value addition, ice plant and accessories
Production and export of shrimp/prawn & processing units
MARINE FISH PRODUCTION (Lakh ton)
Objectives
Sl. No.
Future opportunity
4000000 2000000 0 INLAND FISHERIES
BRACKISH WATER
2011-12
MARINE FISHERIES
2012-13
EXTENSION WING
2013-14
WELFARE SCHEME
CO-OP SOCIETY
2014-15
TRAINING OF FISH FARMERS (IN N0.)
2014-15
2013-14
TRAINING OF FISH FARMERS (IN N0.) 2012-13
2011-12
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000 12000 14000 16000
References • • •
Government of West Bengal, Directorate of Fisheries- FFDA Section report.
Handbook of Fisheries Statistics (2014-15), Department of Fisheries, Govt. of West Bengal.
Paul. P and Basak. N. K., 2015. Present Scenario, Problems and Prospects of Inland Fishing of West Bengal, India. Indian Journal Of Applied Research: Vol 5. •
West Bengal – Ultimate Destination for Investment In Fisheries Sector, An Overview Report, Department of
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www.bengalfisheriesinvestment.org
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Tissue Culture Technique For Production Of Disease Free Banana Planting Materials Praful Kumar1 and Lav Kumar2 Department of Plant Pathology, Indira Gandhi Agriculture University, Raipur (Chhattisgarh) 2 Department of Vegetable Science, Indira Gandhi Agriculture University, Raipur (Chhattisgarh) Banana is the second most important fruit crop and it is one of the high-calorie tropical fruit. Despite the significant commercial value of the crop, the main production constrain is the shortage of uniform and disease-free planting materials. The planting materials obtained through conventional methods (suckers) do not meet the increasing demand for planting and produced plants are of poor quality and widely affected by diseases. The problem of emerging diseases can be solved by propagating banana through tissue culture. Tissue culture technique whereby plant cells and tissue can be grown in or on a synthetic nutrient mediun have been widely exploited for basic and applied research. Tissue culture (TC) technology offers mass propagation and disease free planting materials. In vitro banana production technology is a superior technology over traditional method (Sucker-propagation) of banana production with respect to produce, more vigorous, higher yielding, better quality fruits, disease-free planting material and true to type plants. The in vitro propagation technique for producing banana using shoot tip cultures is a necessary approach in dealing with the problems encountered in tissue culture. These techniqueS will ensure sustainable production of banana planting materials. Mass multiplication of tissue culture plants could be done in a short time. 1
Exploring the Future Prospects in Fisheries Sector of West Bengal Suman Dey1, S.N.Ojha and SutanuKarmakar ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai-400061 West Bengal ranks second in total inland fish production among all the states in India. However, the state is not able to meet the increasing demand of fish. Therefore, it was found to be necessary to analyze the factors of production and accordingly suggest suitable institutional transformation in the management of fisheries sector of West Bengal.Accordingly, this study was conducted to gain an understanding of the existing status of fisheries, organizational structure of the government organizations working for the fisheries sector of West Bengal and the factors affecting fish production in the state using the secondary data available from the Department of Fisheries, Govt. of West Bengal.Correlation matrix using SPSS was formed to see the level of association among the various factors and stepwise multiple regression analysis was done using SPSS to find out the independent variables that significantly affect the dependent variables. The results of the study depicted that there arelarge untapped natural fisheries resources available in the state which needs to be utilized. In the study, the factors affecting fish production was found to be the ‘increase in the water area under fish culture’ and the ‘increase in the domestic demand of fish in the state’. These factors depicted significant relationship with fish production. Hence forth, the government must redesign the organizational structure to increase the water area and domestic demand for fishes in the state.
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