Pantnagar Journal of Research

Abstract

The study was designed to investigate the adoption level of scientific fish farming practices by the fish farmers. The study was carried out in West Tripura district of Tripura. Random sampling technique was applied for the selection of respondent fish farmers. Quantitative data were collected from 80 respondents using prestructured interview schedule during a period from October to December, 2017. Results of the study reveals that majority of farmers were found to practice traditional farming without much scientific knowledge like “Initial soil and water testing”, “Acclimatization of fish seeds before stocking”, “Stocking appropriate number of fish seeds”, “Application of commercially available supplementary feeds” etc. However, periodical application of cow dung or any other organic manure was found to be fully adopted by more than half of the respondents (55%). Moreover from the results, significant positive correlation was found between annual income, extension contact, information source exposure, economic motivation, information management behaviour, training exposure and experience in fisheries with the adoption level of scientific fish farming practices of the fish farmers of study area.