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Chapter
III INLAND
FISHERING SECTOR- FFDA
The promotional agents of inland water fishing in the state are FFDAs and
BFFDAs. Fish Farmers Development Agency is the agency to promote inland fish
cultivation in pure water. For the study of FFDA part of inland fisheries
sector, the list of cultivators provided by the FFDA
was used as frame.
As per this list there were 972 fish cultivators (pure water) in the state
and out of which 917 people are cultivating fish below 1 hectare.
From the survey, it is found that most of the cultivators are using
very small area for fish cultivation
and some of them had even stopped the cultivation.
30 persons were seen
cultivating area between 1and 2 hectors and 21 of them were cultivating in
an area between 2 and 4 hectares and 4 persons had cultivation in above 4
hectares. It
is be seen that Eranakulam district has the highest area cultivated even if
the number of cultivators are less. Hence it is clear that the area
cultivated by each of them is higher compared to other districts which have
more number of farmers. 35 farmers are cultivating in 8.86 hectares in
Eranakulam with all of them having below one hectare of land and 2 farmers
have land between 1 and 1.99 hectares, 2 of them have land between 2 and 2.
99 hectares. 2 of them have land above 4 hectares.
Malappuram district 227 farmers while the total area cultivated is
only 23.85 hectares. Wayanad
district has 191 farmers with an area of 5.27 hectares. Idukki district has
68 farmers and has only 8.96 hectares of land for cultivation. Kollam
district has 54 farmers and 22.12 hectares of land of cultivation. Highest
area of cultivation is in Eranakulam District i.e. 62.79 hectares. Out
of the cultivators, 868 are farming as proprietorship and 22 are farming in
partnership and 82 farmers were not included in both these categories. Production
and Income 3828.93 quintal of fish was produced by these cultivators and harvested in the four seasons with a value of Rs.17489004/-. January-March, one of the four seasons, is the high yield season. Among the districts, Kollam has got the highest yield. On an enquiry it was understood that these cultivators are getting an income from other Inland water bodies (where they have not cultivated) by fishing there and this has also been included with the income from fish farming. The Income thus obtained is given in Table 18B. Fishes
were classified according to Type. The
important types of fishes grown are prawn, Grass Carp, Catfish, Silver
carp,Rohu, Thiloppia, Catla and some other varieties which are not
classified. Out of this, Catla
is the widely growing fish and it had a production of 963 quintals.
All the minor variety fishes, which are not classified, contribute
1039 quintals. The minor
variety fishes fetch the highest share in production in terms of money.
Catla is the 2nd highest priced fish. District wise Production in Quintals
Expenditure86030 man days were spent for fish cultivation by these farmers and out of which 19057 man days were hired labourers and 66973 mandays contributed by household labourers. For this a total wages of Rs.10634045/- were spent and out of which Rs.1927555/- was spent for hired and Rs. 8706490/- was imputed value for household labourers. A total expenditure of Rs.8272196/-has been incurred for this cultivation excluding the wages for household labourers and out of which 1.21% has been spent for rent 17.46% for seed 35.64% for food, 11.18% for net and other accessories 23.3% for wages for hired labourers and 11.19% for other expenses (Table 21) Season
wise expenditure is given in the table 22 District wise Income in Rupees
A
total income of Rs. 19012768/- was received from inland fishing which
included the income from fishing in inland water bodies in pure water
sources where fish have not been cultivated by the farmers. Rs.1523764/- was
the income accrued from fishing in the inland water bodies where no fish
cultivation was done. Thus
it is estimated that a total income of Rs.19012768/- was generated
with an expenditure of Rs.8272196/- in this sector (in pure water bodies). Income
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Sl
No |
District |
Proprietorship |
Partnership |
Others |
Total |
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1 |
Kasaragode |
39 |
|
|
39 |
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2 |
Kannur |
14 |
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3 |
17 |
|
3 |
Wayanad |
134 |
|
57 |
191 |
|
4 |
Kozhikkode |
57 |
6 |
|
63 |
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5 |
Malappuram |
227 |
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|
227 |
|
6 |
Palakkad |
26 |
|
|
26 |
|
7 |
Thrissur |
13 |
|
1 |
14 |
|
8 |
Eranakulam |
33 |
4 |
4 |
41 |
|
9 |
Idukki |
71 |
|
|
71 |
|
10 |
Kottayam |
71 |
|
|
71 |
|
11 |
Alappuzha |
55 |
6 |
|
61 |
|
12 |
Pathanamthitta |
39 |
|
11 |
50 |
|
13 |
Kollam |
54 |
|
|
54 |
|
14 |
Thiruvananthapuram |
35 |
6 |
6 |
47 |
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Total |
868 |
22 |
82 |
972 |
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Table- 14
Number
of Cultivators According to Area (Hectares) Stratum wise
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Sl
No |
District |
Below
1 |
1to
1.99 |
2
to3.99 |
4&above |
Total |
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1 |
Kasaragode |
39 |
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39 |
|
2 |
Kannur |
8 |
1 |
8 |
|
17 |
|
3 |
Wayanad |
191 |
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|
|
191 |
|
4 |
Kozhikkode |
63 |
|
|
|
63 |
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5 |
Malappuram |
225 |
2 |
|
|
227 |
|
6 |
Palakkad |
19 |
6 |
1 |
|
26 |
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7 |
Thrissur |
9 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
14 |
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8 |
Eranakulam |
35 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
41 |
|
9 |
Idukki |
68 |
3 |
|
|
71 |
|
10 |
Kottayam |
69 |
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1 |
1 |
71 |
|
11 |
Alappuzha |
60 |
|
1 |
|
61 |
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12 |
Pathanamthitta |
46 |
1 |
3 |
|
50 |
|
13 |
Kollam |
54 |
|
|
|
54 |
|
14 |
Thiruvananthapuram |
31 |
12 |
4 |
|
47 |
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Total |
917 |
30 |
21 |
4 |
972 |
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Table- 15
Area Cultivated (Hectares) Stratum wise
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Sl
No |
District |
Below
1 |
1to
1.99 |
2
to3.99 |
4&above |
Total |
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1 |
Kasaragode |
0.99 |
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