A study on the information sources and influence of socio-personal attributes on information seeking behavior of aqua farmers

Techno-economic analysis of Shrimp farming in Coastal districts of Tamilnadu

“…Majority of the shrimp farmer respondents belonged to middle age group (45.33 %), followed by old (39.33 %) and young (15.33 %) age groups. Similar finding were reported in the past [12,13] . Educational status of the respondent farmers revealed that majority of the farmers were literate with nearly half of the respondents (44.67 %) were educated up to higher secondary level followed by graduation and above level (22.67 %), middle school level (12.00 %), primary school level (14.00%).…”

“…On a whole, 93.33 % farmer respondents were educated. The studies on adoption of shrimp culture techniques [14] , information utilization of shrimp farmers [15] and information seeking behavior of aqua farmers [13] reported similar findings. About three-fourth (78.67 %) of the farmers in the present study were engaged in aquaculture alone for their livelihood and rest (21.33 %) had other occupations as well in addition to aquaculture.…”

“…About three-fourth (78.67 %) of the farmers in the present study were engaged in aquaculture alone for their livelihood and rest (21.33 %) had other occupations as well in addition to aquaculture. It was apparent that shrimp aquaculture being a relatively risky farming activity, it requires the farmer's full time involvement and attention [13,14,16] . With respect to the experience of farmer in shrimp farming activity, nearly half of the respondents (48.67 %) had farming experience between 5-10 years and 27.33% farmer respondents had experience up to 5 years, while 24.00 % farmers were found to be with more than 10 years of experience.…”

“…The total cost of shrimp farming in the sample farms was estimated to be over Rs. 13.00 lakh per hectare per crop out of which 87.99 percent was accounted by variable cost and balance 12.01 percent was by fixed cost (Table 3). Component wise analysis of cost indicated that, cost of feed was the major component accounting nearly half of the total cost (42.94 %) which was followed by electricity charges (10.10 %), Probiotics, medicines and chemicals (8.97 %), cost of seed (8.26%) and others.…”

Study on socio-economic analysis of white-leg shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei nursery rearing in coastal districts of Tamil Nadu

“…Nearly three-fourth (74.29 %) of the shrimp nursery growers in the present study were engaged in aquaculture alone for their livelihood and rest (25.71 %) had other occupations as well in addition to aquaculture. It is very evident that shrimp aquaculture being a relatively risky farming activity, it requires the farmer's full time involvement and attention [13,14,15,16] .With respect to the experience of farmer in shrimp farming activity, majority of the respondents (42.86 %) had farming experience between 5-10 years and 34.29 % farmer respondents had more than 10 years of experience, while 22.86 % farmers were found to be with experience up to 5 years. It could be observed that farmers had considerable level of shrimp farming experience.…”