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Carp fish cultivation creates revolution in Rajshahi 

Published : Tuesday, 31 December, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 109
Rafiqul Hasan Firoz
RAJSHAHI, Dec 30: Carp fish cultivation has created a revolution in Rajshahi Division, providing employment to 2.5 lakh people.

The carp farming spree is going on in eight districts of Rajshahi Division, with 5.5 lakh metric tons (mt) of fish production yearly. 

According to official sources, the carp fish farming has been continuing in the division as farmers are getting encouraging profits.

According to sources at the Rajashahi Divisional Fisheries Office, in 2018 the division stood second in the country in producing carp fish.

There are ponds in 3.73 lakh hectares of land, marshes, canals and beels in the division, with 5,51,700mt of fish production; there are 2.5 lakh fish farmers. 

For the last five years, fishes have been cultivated in over 25,000 ponds in nine upazilas of Rajshahi District. Carp-ruhi are farmed in each pond. 

From open marshes, 87,276mt of fishes are produced in the district.

A total of 74,000 mt of fishes, worth about Tk 2,000 crore, are produced from ponds and open marshes in Natore District yearly.

In Pabna, fish production target has been fixed at 74,000mt.

Bogura District Fisheries Officer Kali Pada said, after meeting the district demand, fishes of about Tk 500 crore are exported to India and other countries.

In Sirajganj for getting higher profits in a short time, many are shifting to fish farming; at the personal level, carp fish is cultivated on about 4,500 ponds in Tarash Upazila; for good yielding, many are becoming solvent.

Tarash Upazila Fisheries Officer Moshgul Azad said, soil of Tarash is suitable for fish farming; profit of fish farming stands at Tk 30,000-50,000 per bigha.

But farmers are not getting expected profits due to increased feed prices.   

Pabna District Fisheries Officer Md Abul Kalam Azad said, farmers are given concepts about different rich technologies to make fish farming encouraging to farmers; they are given training and also incentives.  

Deputy Director of Rajshahi Divisional Fisheries Office Md Abdul Wadud Mandal said, due to feed price hike, many farmers cannot be benefitted.

If they prepare feed themselves, then fish production cost will come down, he added.



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