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Case Studies on Community Based Inland Fisheries: Village-Jadurbankata and Saluni
Chinmoy Bandyopadhyay
Consultant-MIS and Documentation
Watershed Support Services and Activities Network
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Objectives of the Study
• To get to know the approaches, activities and planning processof the community in inland fisheries;
• To build an understanding on challenges, difficulties andsetbacks the SHG members face related to inland fisheries;
• To identify the sources of different inputs;
• To understand the profitability and future plans of thecommunity;
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CASE STUDY: ONE Village: Jadurbankata; Gram Panchayat: Baharamuri; Block: Hirbandh
Name of the SHG: “Marangburu Mahila Swanirbhar Gosthi”
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Field Observations
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Approaches, Activities and Planning Process• Water testing is done by group
members;
• Cumulative/collective seed purchase from Baharamuri;
• Own labor;
• No calculations regarding productivity;
Preventive measure from theft
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Approaches, Activities and Planning Process
• Less seriousness about recommended management practices;
• Subsistence attitude;
• Notion of alternative source of income;
• Scattered planning
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Challenges, Difficulties and Setbacks
• No credit facility;
• Less active block fisheries dept.;
• Lack of required infrastructure (like- one fishing net for the whole block);
• Less understanding about planning, collective marketing, productivity andprofitability calculation;
• Non-availability of required infrastructure and inferior level ofunderstanding leads to lower adoption of recommended managementpractices;
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Challenges, Difficulties and Setbacks
• Theft is one of the evidentproblems;
• Lack of water supply leadsto distress harvesting;
• Subsistence attitude;
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Sources of Inputs
• Seedlings: Baharamuri;
• Infrastructure related: Pradan/Fishery dept.;
• Food for fish: Own;
• Consultancy and capacity building services: Pradan/Fishery dept.;
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Profitability and Future Plans
• Seed and seedling cultivation through group;
• Planning to purchase a big net through group;
• On a short term basis they are planning to purchase seedand seedlings from SHG members of Baragajra village;
• Selling of produce to the fish vendors
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Community Speech
- Mamoni Mandi (SHG member);
- Malati Mandi (SHG member)
“ -Tulshi Mandi
(Leader of the group)
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CASE STUDY: TWO Village: Saluni; Gram Panchayat: Maliyan; Block: Hirbandh
Name of the SHGs: “Subha Kamana, Maa Saraswati, Jai Guru”
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Field Observations
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Approaches, Activities and Planning Process
• Convinced their male counterparts;
• Innovative water supply system;
• Localized theft protection system;
• Localized marketing system;
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Approaches, Activities and Planning Process
• Timely calculations;
• More market driven attitude;
• Sensitization related to the potentiality of inland fishery as aprofitable livelihood option is quite evident;
• Better decision making under the leadership of Parbati didi
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Challenges, Difficulties and Setbacks
• No credit facility;
• Less active block fisheries dept.;
• Lack of required infrastructure (like- one fishing net for the whole block);
• Less understanding about planning, collective marketing, productivity andprofitability calculation;
• Non-availability of required infrastructure and inferior level ofunderstanding leads to lower adoption of recommended managementpractices;
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Challenges, Difficulties and Setbacks
• Theft is one of the evidentproblems;
• Lack of water supply leadsto distress harvesting;
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Sources of Inputs
• Seedlings: Baharamuri;
• Infrastructure related: Pradan/Fishery dept.;
• Food for fish: Own;
• Consultancy and capacity building services: Pradan/Fishery dept.;
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Profitability and Future Plans
• Seed and seedling cultivation through group;
• Planning to purchase a big net through group;
• Planning to use surplus earning ;
• Selling of produce to the fish vendors
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Some Lessons Learned- a Synthesis
• There is a potentiality in both thevillages, some strengthening isneeded in the marketing andinfrastructural front;
• Local level leadership is veryimportant to put things in rightshape;
• Promoting inland fisheries as oneof frontline livelihood measureneeds an attitudinal shift incommunity;
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Conclusions and Recommendations
• Shift in attitude from subsistence type to a profitablemarket driven approach is needed;
• Some local level water supply to water bodies should bedevised;
• Some capacity building program on the recommendedmanagement practices and collective marketing should becarried out;
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Conclusions and Recommendations
• Convergence with other programs like- ATMA, RKVY,NMSA, BRGF may be done to access fund ;
• SHG members must have the control over the wholevalue chain for lesser dependency;
• Some capacity building program on the recommendedmanagement practices and collective marketing should becarried out;
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