Presentation of G2 by Liz, IRRI

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G2 - Productive, profitable, resilient

agriculture & aquaculture systems

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Objectives1. Rice varieties

a. validate new varieties suitable for various cropping systems in

a range of environments (salinity, water stagnation)b. initiate seed distribution & dissemination in study areas

2. Rice-based cropping systems

Develop & disseminate more productive, profitable, resilient, &diversified rice-based cropping systems (including rice-

aquaculture in saline areas)3. Homestead production systems

Identify management practices to enhance the productivity &profitability of homestead production systems

4. Year-round aquaculture systems

Develop & disseminate more productive, profitable, resilient &diversified brackish-water aquatic production systems for zonestoo saline for agricultural crops

5. Recommendations

Produce technology & policy recommendations for up- & out-scaling2



ACTIVITIES

1. Development & finalisation of contracts with partners

2. Recruitment of staff & students

3. Field trips4. Participation in IFWF3

5. Conduct of research – Workplan development

– Literature reviews

– Surveys

– Implementation of field experiments & demonstrations

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This presentation - reporting by ACTIVITIES

• What we did (the activity)

• Key findings

• Outputs

Issues

Opportunities

Plans



CPWF

Innovation

Project

4JahangirAlam

ACTIVITY 1LoAs(& other partnerships)

PatuakhaliSci & Tech Uni.



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ACTIVITY 2Recruitment



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ACTIVITY 3 Field trips (MAJOR - May, Oct 2011, Mar 2012)+ many, many more

1. site selection rice variety & cropping systems trials rice-aquaculture & year-round aquaculture trials


http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/presentation-of-g2-by-liz-irri 8/84West Bengal, India Bangladesh

BRRI Barisal trials

Polder 43/2/Ftrials

Polder 30 trials &study watershed

Polder 3trials

North 24 Parganas

South 24 Parganas

ACTIVITY 3 Field trips (MAJOR - May, Oct 2011, Mar 2012)+ many, many more

1. site selection rice variety & cropping systems trials rice-aquaculture & year-round aquaculture trials

Andy Nelson8



ACTIVITY 3 Field trips

2. better understanding of constraints & opportunities

– socio-economic, cultural, institutional, environmental,

production systems

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3. cross-disciplinary insights & increased collaboration



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4. team building & bonding

within the Gs, across the Gs, with management



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ACTIVITY 4

1. GBDC cross-project learning & team building

2. CPWF cross-basin insights

http://waterandfood.org/ifwf3/



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ACTIVITY 5 – Research

5.1 Development of detailed research plans

1. Rice varietiesa. Variety selection for each polder, expt design, implementation

& monitoring plans

b. Seed multiplication, distribution, training & monitoring plans

• 3 seasons/yr (aman, boro, aus) - polders 3 & 43/2/F

• 2 seasons/yr (aman, boro) - INDIA

• aman only - polder 3



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5.1 Development of detailed research plans (cont…)

2. Rice-based cropping systemsExpt design, implementation & monitoring plans

a. On-farm demonstrations/trials

• aman-rabi-aus – polders 30 & 43/2/F

• aman-boro – polder 30, INDIA• aman-boro-aus - polder 43/2/F



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2. Rice-based cropping systemsExpt design, implementation & monitoring plans

b. Controlled experiments

• aman-rabi-aus – polders 30 & PSTU, Barisal

• aman-boro-aus - PSTU, Barisal• aman-SHRIMP - polder 3



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3. Homestead production systemsa. literature review

b. survey

• sampling strategy (1,300 HH over 3 polders; INDIA tba)

• questionnaire design (with CSISA)



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4. Year-round aquaculture systemsExpt design, implementation & monitoring plans



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5.2 Literature reviews

a. Homestead production systems (in progress)b. Brackish water aquaculture (1st draft)



Aquaculture and rice-based system

in brackish water coastal areas

A review



Importance of fisheries & aquaculture

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p r o d u c t i o n ( x 0 0 0 m t ) Culture Capture

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2010

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12%

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Capture Culture

Fisheries sub-sector contributes ~3.7% to totalGDP, 22.2% to agricultural sector, 2.7% to totalnational export earnings.



• While capture and culture fisheries focuses largely thedomestic market, brackishwater aquaculture hasgradually been becoming more and more exportoriented.

• Export earnings increased from $ 19 million in 1976-77to $ 611 million in 2010-11; 85% from shrimp

Importance of brackish water aquaculture

Inland

capture,

1029.94,

36%

Marine

capture,

517.28, 18%

Fw culture,

1196.11,

41%

BW culture,

155.87, 5%2009-10

2885.21,85%

13.22, 0% 458.11, 14%

25.06,1%

10.41,0%

12.66, 0% 3.85, 0%

Shrimp

Live fish

Frozen fish

Dried fish

Crab & turtle

Shark fins & rayas

Others



• Substantial employment in shrimp farms as well as intrade/commerce, processing, marketing and exporting

• In 1983, on-farm and off-farm employment was 4.1 &5.9 million person days, respectively

• In 1990 on-farm and off-farm employment was 22.6million person days

• In 2005, 59.4 million person days

• It is logical to assume that it might be more at present &the shrimp industry would play a pivotal role inabsorbing the surplus rural labour force in coastal areas




• 46% of shrimp farm production (fish and small shrimps)providing nutrition to coastal rural people

Bagda49800 mt

34%

Golda26138 mt

18%

Other

shrimp21899 mt

15%

Fish47839mt

33%

Shrimp farm production

in 2008-09




Historical development of shrimp industry

• Age-old paddy dominating bheri farming system up to 60s

• Polderization from early 60s to

80s• Bagda farming within poldersstarted in early 70s & continuedto flourish rapidly

• Golda farming started in early-

mid 80s• Shrimp farming was declared as

industry in the 2nd FYP (1980-85)



• BW aquaculture farming, particularly bagdaexpanded rapidly

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• 1979 –8016,500 ha bagda3,500 ha golda

• 2009-10, about

194,198 ha bagda52,000 ha golda




Chittagong20193,21%

Khulna,73650,75%

Barishal,3807, 4%

Dhaka, 96,0%

2008-09• Shrimp farming exclusivelyin 4 coastal districts

• Satkhira- 52,375 ha,

• Khulna- 51,921 ha,

• Bagerhat- 59,424 ha,

• Cox’s Bazar- 32,018 ha

• Major shrimp farming area expanded in Khulna division by

• 162% from 1984 to 1997;

• 3%, from 1997 to 2002;

• 59% from 2002 to 2009.




• Over the 1980s and early 1990s there was considerableconflict between paddy (rice) farmers & the shrimpfarming industry.

• 46.7% farmers (mainly in the Khulna region) rotateshrimp culture with Aman rice (FAO, 1998).

• With the gradual but widespread increase in owneroccupation, reduction in gher size and operation, this

conflict has greatly decreased (FFP, 2001b).

• At present 80% farms are operated by their ownersrotating their shrimp culture with paddy cultivation

• Average farm size is now 9.5 ha (2-37 ha)




Shrimp cropping

pattern

Months

J F M A M J J A S O N D

Satkhira

Year-round bagda

Bagda-rice rotation

Khulna

Bagda-rice rotation

Golda-rice integration

Bagerhat

Bagda-rice rotation

Golda-rice integration Cox’s Bazar

Year-round bagda

Bagda-salt rotation

Legend : Bagda Rice Golda-fish Salt

Historical development of shrimp

industry



• The output growth in shrimp production up to 1990s was

mainly the result of the expansion of the farm area

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• Productivity (kg/ha) of shrimp (both bagda and golda) from

BW aquaculture is more or less stagnant• Per ha bagda and golda procuction production averaged

approximately 245 and 500 kg/ha, respectively in 2008-09


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Causes of low and stagnant production

SHRIMP CULTURE SYSTEM

Traditional extensive Semi-intensive

No Preparation

No fertilization

PRODUCTION LEVEL

Improved traditional extensive

Preparation

Fertilization

Preparation

Fertilization

Feeding

Water management

Preparation & fertilizationFormulated feeding

Closed system water

management

Aeration

Low yield

50-250 kg/ha Medium yield: 250-750 kg/ha High yield

1000-2500 kg/ha

• Cultural practiceo75% traditional

extensive

o24% improvedextensiveo1% semi-intensive

• Poor land use

system• Poor disease &

health management



• Climatic &hydrological suitabilityfor rice-shrimp system

in 60-70% total areaunder shrimp farming

• Sustainable

• Potential to increase

production of bothshrimp & rice, &profitability

Opportunities for increasing productivity & profitability

Improved rice (aman) shrimp system



Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Wet seasonDry season

Gher

preparation

• Water depth- 60-80 cm• Single stocking:

@ 3-5/m²

• Yield: 350-550 kg/ha

• NR: 0.75-1.00 lakh/ha

(1:1.9)

GoldaGIFT

5,000-10,000/ha

at 1:1 ratio

Yield:

• Rice: 4-5 t/ha.

• Fish: 200-250 kg/ha

• Prawn: 70-90 kg/ha

Seedling

Bagda Rice

Improved rice (aman)-shrimp system

HYVs: BR 23/40/41



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48,908b 43,160b

Control

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Dry season shrimp

Economic benefit of integration ofaquaculture with rice (CP # 10)



• Techniques available for increased production by adoption ofimproved to semi-intensive farming system

• Approximately 20,000 ha are suitable for semi-intensivefarming

Modified closed system (Saha et al. 2006-07)

• Stocking density 9-15/sqm; yield rate of 1250 – 1885 kg/hawith FCR 1.4-1.6 and net return of Tk. 0.2 million/cycle

Modified improved culture

• Stocking density 5-9/sqm; yield rate 670-759 kg/ha with2.15-2.4 and net return Tk. 0.07 – 0.15 million (Laif and Alam,2008)

• Stocking density 5/sqm; yield rate 667-811 kg/ha (Saha et al., 2008)

Opportunities for increasing productivity &

profitability



HYVs are available for alternate rice-shrimp system• In addition to local varieties (e.g., Jotabalam, Ghunshi),

HYVs viz, BR23, BRRIdhan 40, BRRIdhan 41 are foundsuitable

• BRRI dhan 40 and BRRI dhan 41 were mostly chosenby the farmers in participatory variety selection trail(Salam et al., 2010).

• Under the CP#10 project for the duration of 2004-2207,seven test rice varieties responded positively to theenvironment, but BR-23, BRRIdhan-40 and BRRIdhan-41yielded significantly higher (4 - 5 t/ha).


profitability



Species diversification in shrimp farming

• Shrimp-tilapia (GIFT/monosex) mixed and/or

rotational (Alam et al., 2008; Saha et al., 2009)

• Shrimp-Pangas-tilapia polyculture (BFRI, 2007)

• Shrimp-mud crab biculture (Momtaz et al.,

2007; Momtaz et al., 2010)


profitability



• Carrying capacity of different areas of coastal zoneto support traditional extensive, improved extensive

& semi-intensive shrimp production systems?

• Site-specific technological packages (pondpreparation, soil-water quality management, in

particular)?

• Do shrimp farmers have access to low cost but

balanced shrimp feed?

• Do the shrimp farmers have knowledge for shrimp

disease and health management

Research questions



• Options for improved cropping pattern/system forrotational rice-shrimp system?

• Are the seeds of different potential brackishwater

fish and shrimp species and their culturetechniques in mono- or poly-culture available for

adoption?

• Finally, are the ecological, economic and social

factors influencing sustainability of shrimp &shrimp-rice farming systems well-known &

understood?

Research questions



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5.3 Surveys (collaboration with CSISA & GHERS projects)

a. Brackish water aquaculture

• Survey completed, analysis underway

b. Homestead production systems



Objectives:

To describe homesteadfarming system

To understand current use ofresources and productivity

To identify research questionsfor improving homesteadsystems



Map of Survey Areas:

Polder 3 Polder 30 Polder 43/2/F



Sampling designHousehold list for each survey area was

collected from respective union parishadThe sample size was calculated by usingweb based sample size calculator withconsideration of 95% confidence level.

The SPSS software was used to selectthe sample farmers randomly.



Sample Number

Areas # samples # households

Polder-30 380 5,500

Polder-3-High land 229 4,500

Polder-3-Low land 301 5,065

Polder-43 355 6,786All polders 1,265 21,851



Data CollectionNumber of Data Enumerators: 10 (8 fisherygraduate, 2 social science graduate)Orientation and training: 2-4 January 2012Field test, group work, review and feedback

incorporation in polder 30 and Khulna: 5-12January 2012Data Collection starts at each polder: 13 January2012

Data collection ends: 20 March 2012



Data Entry & Analysis

MS Access based data entry format wasdeveloped by WF on 22 February .Trial data entry, feedback and

modification of data entry format: 26-29February 2012Number of Data Entry Operator: 7

Data entry started: 1 March 2012Data entry ended: 25 March 2012Data Cleaning: OngoingPreliminary Data Analysis started: 27March



Data Entry Format



Components of Homestead

Farming Production

Homestead

Aquacultur

e

Vegetabl

e

Poultry

Livestock

Fruits

Forest

Trees

Others



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10

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30

40

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60

70

4944

54

68

55

Percentage of households having homestead

pond

About 50% don’t have ponds

% o f h h



Asset/land under possession

0.0

20.0

40.0

60.0

80.0100.0

120.0

140.0

160.0

180.0

Forest land

Livestock shade

Poultry

Tree covered areavegetable garden

Yard

Fallow

Homeasted

Fruit garden/trees

Pond

Pond (outside homestead)

Rice-fish plot

Crop land

D e c i m a l / h o

u s e h o l d

1 decimal=40m2



Cost, return and profit of differentfarming products

B D T / h o u s e

h o l d

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land

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land

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Wheat

Vegetable

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Pulses

Poultry

Paddy

Maize

Livestock

Fish



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Polder-3-Lowland

Polder-43 All polders

L a n d a r e a

( D e c / H o u s e h o l d )

Land holding of Household

Nonhomestead Land area Homestead land area



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Household Homestead land area distribution

Yard

Tree covered

areaLivestock shade

Poultry shade

Fruit

garden/trees



0.0

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120.0

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( D e c / H o u s e h o l d )

Household Nonhomestead land area distribuion

Crop land

Rice-fish plotGHERs

Fallow

Forest land



Annual household income based onoccupation

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fish culture

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puller

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Next Steps

Data Analysis: 30 April 2012Formulation of research question: 31May 2012Survey Report(1st draft): 30 June 2012Experimental design: 30 June



Thanks




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5.4 Field experiments & demonstrations

OUTPUT 1. Rice variety evaluation – in farmers’ fields

• 2011 aman – 3 polders, completed

• 2011/2 boro – 2 polders, in progress

• 10-12 varieties

• 3 replicates

• Small plots (25 m2 & 12.5 m2)

• Researcher monitoring (crop, water depth & salinity)• Farmer PVS (participatory variety selection)

2011 aman variety evaluation for no/low salinity



y / y

Only 1 seeding/transplanting datepossible because of deep water – destruction of seedling nurseries

Polder 30 – 26 Oct 2011

Polder 43/2/F – 25 Oct 20113 seeding/transplanting dates achieved

Improved varieties more than doubled aman rice yield



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on both polders 30 & 43/2/F – despite considerable

water stagnation and/or submergence of the seedbed,

& shorter duration

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5

G r a i n y i e l d ( t / h a )

Polder 30 - Batiaghata - Aman 2011

1 Jul sowing

2011 aman variety evaluation for rice-aquaculture



in saline area

Well-drained/leached gher

Polder 3 - 27 Oct 2011Poorly-drained/leached gher

Poorer performance of seedlingstransplanted at younger age (smaller)

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Farmer water (drainage) management has a huge



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0

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4

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8

10

W a t e r s a l i n i t y ( d S / m )

Polder 3 - Sehara - Aman 2011

Good leaching/water mgt Poor leaching/water mgt

36 day-old

seedlings26 day-old

seedlings

Farmer water (drainage) management has a huge

influence on salinity for aman rice

Several varieties performed well at both salinity levels



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0

1

2

3

4

5

Bd 23 Bd 40 Bd 41 Bd 44 Bd 47 Bd 52 Bd 53 Bd 54 BINA 8 IRRI line

G r a i n y i e l d ( t / h a )

Polder 3 - Sehara - Aman 2011

36 day old seedlings transpl. 20 Aug

Medium salinity

High salinity

Several varieties performed well at both salinity levels

using oldish seedlings – some didn’t

Bd = BRRI dhan = BRRI rice variety number….

Polder 3 - Sehara, high salinity gher - Aman 2011



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0

1

2

3

4

5

G r a i n y i e l d

( t / h a )

Polder 3 - Sehara, high salinity gher - Aman 2011

30 July sowing, 26 day-old seedlings transpl. 25 Aug

0

1

2

3

4

5

G r a i n y i e l d

( t / h a )

15 Jul sowing, 36 day old seedlings transpl. 20 Aug

Low yields when younger

seedlings transplanted in

saline gher because of

combination of highsalinity & water too deep

(>10 cm) shortly after

transplanting

Boro variety trials in progress



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y p g

- 2 locations x 6 sites in INDIA

- polders 30 & 43/2/F in BGD

NB surrounded by fallow land

Farmer on 43/2/F

43/2/F

Sandeshkhali, India




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ACTIVITY 5 Research

5.4 Field experiments & demonstrations

OUTPUT 2. Cropping systems

On-farm demonstrations/experiments established:• aman-rabi-aus – polders 30 & 43/2/F 2nd crop• aman-boro - polder 30 2nd crop • aman-boro-aus - polder 43/2/F 2nd crop • aman-SHRIMP - polder 3 1st crop

(shrimp, shrimp+fish)

• rice-rice & rice-rabi - non-replicated demonstrations

• rice-shrimp - replicated small ghers

With t ld t t ti l l i



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With current polder water management practices, lower lying

areas suffer from considerable water stagnation

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Rainfall (mm)Water depth (cm) Polder 30 aman rice site

Transplanted 25 July

Harvest

Aman-Rabi polder 43/2/F



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p / /

maize

mungbean sunflower

chilli

watermelon

Aman-Boro polder 30



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Aman 4.3-4.5 t/ha

off-type?

Transpl.10 Nov

Transpl.30 Nov

Transpl.20 Dec

Aman-aquaculture - polder 3



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Aman aquaculture polder 3

2 water depths• 30-50 cm (farmers’ practice) • 50-70 cm

3 stocking/management treatmentsS1 - Farmers’ practice S2 - Monculture (3 stocking/harvest per year)S3 - Polyculture (3 stocking/harvest per year)

4 replicates

Small ghers ~600 m2

Construction



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BeforeConstruction

Drains

Nursery



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Nursery

2 of the 24 ghers

Watertreatmentpond

S1 - Farmers’ stocking practice



Farmers’ practice documented through a series of consultation meetings with 54 farmers


Penaeus monodon 2/m2

+ Metapenaeus monoceros

4/m2

+ Liza parsia 0.25/m2

+ Rhinomugil corsula 0.25/m2

+ Oreochromis spp. 0.25/m2

Penaeus monodon

0.5/m2

Penaeus monodon

0.5/m2

Penaeus monodon

0.5/m2

Penaeus monodon 0.5/m2

Labeo rohita

0.25/m2 + Catla catla

0.25/m2 + Cyprinus carpio

0.25/m2 + Cirrhinus mrigala

0.25/m2

Aman Rice

S2 Rotational monoculture



S2 - Rotational monoculture


Penaeus monodon

3/m2 (early Feb)

Oreochromis spp.

2/m2 (nursing will be

started at late may

and after shrimp

harvesting it will be

released in the GHER)

Macrobrachium_rosenbergii

2/m2 (nursing will be started at early

July and after Tilapia harvesting it will

be released in the GHER)

Aman Rice

S3 polyculture



S3 - polyculture


Penaeus monodon

2/sqm+ Oreochromis spp 2/sqm

Penaeus monodon

1/sqm

Oreochromis spp 1/sqm+

Mystus gulio

1/sqm (nursing will be

started at late may and after

shrimp & Tilapia harvesting

it will be released in the

GHER)

Heteropneustes fossilis

1/sqm+ Macrobrachium_rosenbergii

1/sqm (nursing will be started at earlyJuly and after harvesting of Tilapia &

Tengra it will be released in the GHER)

Aman Rice

• Progress to date



15 February - Experimental set-up completed

15-25 February - Liming & fertilization

25 February - Shrimp PL stocked in Nursery

- Shrimp & brackish water fish stocked

directly in farmers practice

March - Shrimp transferred from nursery to

experimental ponds

25 March - Tilapia stocked in polyculture treatment

Feeding and Monitoring ongoing according to stocking

treatment

All-year-round aquaculture - polder 3



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All year round aquaculture polder 3

3 stocking/management treatments – as for aman-aquaculture

S1 - Farmers’ practice S2 - Monculture (3 stocking/harvest per year)

S3 - Polyculture (3 stocking/harvest per year)

4 replicates

Small ghers ~1,000 m2



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Before

Water treatmentpond Hero

Farmers’ practice gher Improved practice gher



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p g27 March 2012

Improved practice gher

Progress to date – as for aman-aquaculture system



15 February - Experimental set-up completed

15-25 February - Liming & fertilization

25 February - Shrimp PL stocked in Nursery

- Shrimp & brackish water fish stocked

directly in farmers practice

March - Shrimp transferred from nursery to

experimental ponds

25 March - Tilapia stocked in polyculture treatment

Feeding and Monitoring ongoing according to stocking

treatment

Issues & how we deal (dealt) with them



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1. Funding uncertainty & budget cuts• Revise budgets & reduce project activities & outputs

2. Lack of a GBDC advisory committee• We raised this at the Ganges meetings in Jan, Jun, Nov 2011 & in

several emails, to no avail

3. Unrealistic contract start date

• We really pushed ourselves in BGD to start field work in June 2011

4. Lack of funds from CPWF until late Oct• Tremendous effort of BRRI & BRAC to begin implementation in

June• Bank rolling of IRRI

Issues (cont…)



Aus-aman-rabiUNdrained

Aus-aman-rabidrained

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• change site – start again – polder 30

• improve drainage system – polder 43/2/F

5. Inability to implement effective early drainage treatments & todemonstrate the benefits of early establishment of rabi crops

Opportunities



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1. Opportunity for CPWF INNOVATION grant to implement a pilotcommunity water management demonstration• Proposed & agreed

2. Opportunity for CIBA & CSSRI to collaborate in rice-aquaculture work inIndia• Proposed & agreed

2. Opportunities for co-ordination in water depth & salinity monitoring &soil salinity monitoring across the Gs

• Proposed, agreed, planned & implemented3. Opportunity for collaboration with CSISA in supporting 3 PhD scholarsto work on cropping system intensification• Proposed, agreed & implemented

4. Opportunity for collaboration with CSISA in household survey work• Proposed, agreed & implemented

5. Opportunity for collaboration with FTFfish in evaluation of aquaculture& rice-aquaculture in saline areas• Proposed, agreed & implemented

Plans for coming year



1. Build on what we have started (fantastic team, good experimental plans& initial progress) – we now have a good foundation

2. Implement community watershed management activity

3. Hope - for many things• Funding certainty & adequacy• No catastrophic weather events

• Safe travel

Presentation of G2 by Liz, IRRI

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Transcript of Presentation of G2 by Liz, IRRI