Export economy has been interrupted in shrimp/prawn, the second largest earning source of Bangladesh due to detection of Nitrofuran in export ed prawns to the EU countries. Around 100 consignments of frozen prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) were rejected at the EU borders between 2005 and 2009. Bangladesh exported shrimp and fish...
This study was conducted to assess the economic consequences gained from disease-affected extensive shrimp farming by three major farm ownerships: individual, group and outside respectively. Key data for cost and returns were collected using a questionnaire survey between June and August 2002 from southwest Bangladesh. Profitability of operations was affected...
This study investigated cropping systems and economic analyses in disease-affected shrimp farming areas in southwest Bangladesh. Key data were collected using a questionnaire between June and August 2002. The identified farming systems were shrimp, shrimp+paddy, and paddy respectively. In shrimp+paddy farming, paddy was introduced in shrimp farm by converting a...
Ashurar beel, an open perennial capture fishery of 400 ha, and located in north west Bangladesh was familiarized as indiscriminant and uncontrolled fishing by in-migrant people before being brought under Community Based Fisheries Management project in 1996. Caritas, a non-government organization and a lead partner of the project undertakes various...