scholarly journals Preference of information sources by the fish farming communities of Muktagacha Upazila in Bangladesh

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 166-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asaduzzaman Sarker Md ◽  
Abdul Momen Miah Md ◽  
Sarker Dev Debashish ◽  
Nahar Kabita Kamrun
Keyword(s):  
Information Sources ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Farming Communities

scholarly journals Recent Trends in Freshwater Pearl Farming in India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shailesh Saurabh ◽  
Sweta Pradhan ◽  
Sonal Suman
Keyword(s):  
Fish Farming ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Freshwater Aquaculture ◽  
Freshwater Habitats ◽  
Pearl Quality ◽  
Recent Trends

Cultured pearls have an important place in international trade. The Vedas, the Bible, and the Koran all mentioned pearls, and they are regarded as one of the highest honours. Pearls are generated in nature when an irritant, such as a sand grain or a parasite, is swept into the pearl molluscs and lodged within it, where it is coated with micro-layers of nacre, a lustrous substance made up of 80–90 per cent aragonite crystals of CaCO3. The ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA), Kausalyaganga, Bhubaneswar, India, has created a base technology for cultivating pearls in freshwater habitats, recognising the scope and value of freshwater pearl production. Indian pond mussel, Lamellidens marginalis is the major species used in freshwater pearl aquaculture. In addition, ICAR-CIFA has pioneered a novel feature of freshwater pearl farming. The Institute has also taken the lead in disseminating freshwater pearl culture technology to the country’s fish farming communities, entrepreneurs, researchers, and students to build a sustainable model for the country’s socio-economic development. In this chapter, we will briefly cover pearls and their types, their historical significance, the spread of pearl mussels of freshwater origin in various countries, pearl biomineralisation, pearl farming techniques, and factors affecting pearl quality, among other things.

scholarly journals Assessment of Household Food Security in Fish Farming Communities in Ghana

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akua S. Akuffo ◽  
Kwamena K. Quagrainie
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Quality ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Ecological Zone ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Food Consumption Score ◽  
The Government ◽  
Farming Households ◽  
Food Consumed

The Government of Ghana and international NGOs have been encouraging the adoption of fish farming to alleviate poverty and food insecurity through training workshops, financial contributions and creation of a fisheries ministry. Nevertheless, there is no study on how these efforts have influenced the household’s welfare, particularly their nutritional quality. Based on this, our objective is to identify the ways through which fish farming impacts the household’s nutritional quality. We hypothesize that engaging in fish farming will increase steady income flow and access to fish for the household’s direct consumption. We adopted the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) approach in a logit framework to achieve this objective and address the endogeneity from the bias of self -selection by creating a statistically similar-looking control group. The results suggest that fish farming households have higher nutritional quality and frequency of food consumed than the non-fish farming households through direct consumption. The probability of adopting fish farming increases with wealth, location, ecological zone and household size but decreases with household income per capita. The average effect of adopting fish farming on household nutritional quality is 15.5 Food Consumption Score points. Policies that encourage women to engage in not only fish processing, but production as well are advised.

scholarly journals FISH FARMERS KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION SOURCES RELATED TO FISH FARMING IN SIDI – SALEM AND EL RIAD DISTRICTS, KAFR EL – SHIKH GOVERNORATE

2012 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 857-887
Author(s):  
AHMED F. HELMY ◽  
HASSAN A. SHARSAR ◽  
SAMY A. EL–GHAMRINI
Keyword(s):  
Information Sources ◽  
Fish Farming

Assessment of Fish Farming in Plateau State, North Central Nigeria

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
L. E. Igoche ◽  
F. Makwin ◽  
T. T. Akpenseun ◽  
J. Kaye ◽  
F. A. Oyedapo
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
The State ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Single Digit ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Plateau State

World leaders are making concerted effort to tackle the menace of food insecurity brought about by upsurge in human population, climate change and displacement of farming communities due to civil unrest in some part of the world. This study was undertaken to assess the current status of fish farming in Plateau State and suggest possible ways of ameliorating any observed challenges for increased fish production. The study evaluated the challenges affecting fish farming in the study area. Structured interview schedule questionnaire were used in sourcing information from nine (9) local government areas in the state.  Ninety (90) fish farmers were randomly selected from the nine (9) local governments areas each drawn from the three Agricultural zones of the State. Data obtained were analysed using descriptive statistics. The findings revealed that majority of the fish farmers 70% were males and between the ages of 21-30 years. The study also revealed that the major constraints affecting increased level of output in the study area were high cost of inputs (feeds), poor marketing channels, inadequate finance, inadequate access to credit facilities, and poor extension services. Fish farming in the study area is however, profitable as majority of the farmers made a gross profit margin of above # 501,000.00 per annum. The study recommends that fish hatcheries and feed mill should be established in the study area and that single digit credit facilities should be granted to interested fish farmers. Also extension services with respect to fish farming should be increased in the study area. A good quality fish market should also be established in the study area to assist the farmers in marketing their produce in order to optimise profit.

Eye Movements of Children and Adults While Reading Television Subtitles

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Géry d'Ydewalle ◽  
Wim De Bruycker
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Verbal Information ◽  
Single Text ◽  
Grade 5 ◽  
Reading Patterns ◽  
Attentional System

Abstract. Eye movements of children (Grade 5-6) and adults were monitored while they were watching a foreign language movie with either standard (foreign language soundtrack and native language subtitling) or reversed (foreign language subtitles and native language soundtrack) subtitling. With standard subtitling, reading behavior in the subtitle was observed, but there was a difference between one- and two-line subtitles. As two lines of text contain verbal information that cannot easily be inferred from the pictures on the screen, more regular reading occurred; a single text line is often redundant to the information in the picture, and accordingly less reading of one-line text was apparent. Reversed subtitling showed even more irregular reading patterns (e.g., more subtitles skipped, fewer fixations, longer latencies). No substantial age differences emerged, except that children took longer to shift attention to the subtitle at its onset, and showed longer fixations and shorter saccades in the text. On the whole, the results demonstrated the flexibility of the attentional system and its tuning to the several information sources available (image, soundtrack, and subtitles).

Markets for Purchased Farm Inputs

2005 ◽  
pp. 60-71
Author(s):  
E. Serova ◽  
O. Shick
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Financial Constraints ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Animal Feed ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Farm Inputs

Russian policy makers argue that agriculture suffers from decapitalization due to financial constraints faced by producers. This view is the basis for the national agricultural policy, which emphasizes reimbursement of input costs and substitutes government and quasi-government organizations for missing market institutions. The article evaluates the availability of purchased farm inputs, the efficiency of their use, the main problems in the emergence of market institutions, and the impact of government policies. The analysis focuses on five groups of purchased inputs: farm machinery, fertilizers, fuel, seeds, and animal feed. The information sources include official statistics and data from two original surveys.

A Study on Utilisation Pattern of Information Sources by The Farmers of Mahabub nagar District in Andhra Pradesh

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 15-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. NEETHI B. NEETHI ◽  
◽  
A. SAILAJA A. SAILAJA ◽  
B. SOUMYA B. SOUMYA
Keyword(s):  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Utilisation Pattern
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