2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2008.01931.x
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Freshwater prawn farming in Bangladesh: history, present status and future prospects

Abstract: Within the overall agro‐based economy in Bangladesh, freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) farming is currently one of the most important sectors of the national economy. During the last two decades, its development has attracted considerable attention for its export potential. Freshwater prawn farming offers diverse livelihood opportunities for a large number of rural poor. Although the prospects for prawn farming are positive, it requires some research and development activities for long‐term sustaina… Show more

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“…The use of this tool is justified by its low cost and generation of digital data, which can be easily incorporated into a GIS database. 547 In many countries, the rapid expansion of shrimp farming has caused extensive destruction of mangrove ecosystems [55,56]. The destruction of part of the mangrove area was documented during this study.…”
Section: Assessment Of Land Cover and Land Usementioning
confidence: 98%
“…The use of this tool is justified by its low cost and generation of digital data, which can be easily incorporated into a GIS database. 547 In many countries, the rapid expansion of shrimp farming has caused extensive destruction of mangrove ecosystems [55,56]. The destruction of part of the mangrove area was documented during this study.…”
Section: Assessment Of Land Cover and Land Usementioning
confidence: 98%
“…According to Ahmed et al (2008a), prawn farmers practiced a stocking density of 19830-21155 PL/ha. The average stocking densities were found to be 30000/ha (2.5 PL/m 2 ) in semi-intensive farming, 20000 (2.0 PL/m 2 ) in improved extensive and 15000 (1.5 PL/m 2 ) in extensive systems (Ahmed 2013) that is higher than the stocking Farming of giant freshwater prawn in Bagerhat J Fish 2(3): 187-194, Dec 2014 density recorded in the present study.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The chemicals used for liming of soils are Calcium oxide, Calcium hydroxide, Calcium CaCo3 and mixed calciummagnesium carbonate. About 69.92% farmers used lime at different doses in Bagerhat region of Bangladesh (Ahmed et al, 2008).…”
Section: Pond Preparationmentioning
confidence: 99%