POTENTIALITY OF INTEGRATION OF DIFFERENT COMPONENTS UNDER FISH BASED FARMING SYSTEM FOR INCREASING FARMERS INCOME

KRISHNA MITRA¹, MADHUCHHANDA KHAN², SUBRATA MANDAL³*, RUMA ADDY^4
1ICAR-Rathindra Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, Birbhum, 731236, West Bengal,India
²ICAR-Rathindra Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, Birbhum, 731236, West Bengal,India
³ICAR-Rathindra Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, Birbhum, 731236, West Bengal,India
⁴ICAR-Rathindra Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, Birbhum, 731236, West Bengal,India
* Corresponding Author : smkvkvb@gmail.com

Received : 04-07-2018     Accepted : 11-07-2018     Published : 15-07-2018
Volume : 10     Issue : 13       Pages : 6547 - 6549
Int J Agr Sci 10.13 (2018):6547-6549

Keywords : OFT, IFS, components, B:C ratio, Man-Days, Fish based, Duck, Pulse, Vegetables
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to the farmers who supported by giving pond, land etc for the trials and the other staffs of ICAR-Rathindra Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, Birbhum, 731236, for their support. Authors are also thankful to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) for providing fund for the OFT
Author Contribution : All author equally contributed

An on-farm trial (OFT) was conducted by integrating the different components under fish based integrated farming system (IFS) in some of the adopted villages of Rathindra KVK, Birbhum district of West Bengal during the summer season of the year 2014 and 2015 by using different components surrounding a fish production pond. The district has lateritic soil with a sandy loam texture with low pH (6.2) low O.C (0.39%) low phosphate (17 kg P2O5/ ha) and medium to high K content (182 kg K2O/ ha) The Trial were conducted with 3 treatments (1 farmer’s practice and 2 technology options) and 7 replications. In the farmers’ practice, they do not follow the integration method of different components as required for increasing income. For this trial Technology Option I [Composite fish culture (IMC+ Exotic Carps) + Duck farming (20 nos) + Azolla + Pulse (red gram- Black gram)], Technology Option II [Composite fish culture (IMC+ Exotic Carps) + Duck farming (20 nos) + Azolla+ Veg (Lady’s finger + Capsicum)] were tested for increasing income of farmers by recycling of left over materials within the System.

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