1. 1
May 22, 2012, Khulna
Fisheries Programme
Cereal Systems Initiative for Bangladesh (CSISA –BD)
Project , Khulna Hub, Funded by USAID
Presented in AAS Hub Scoping at Khulna

2. Objectives
Overall objective is to “increase income,
food security, and livelihoods in
impoverished and agriculturally
dependent regions of Bangladesh”

3. Specific Objectives
Objective -1 Widespread delivery, and adoption of improved
varieties & technologies in cereal and fish systems for
production enhancement and income generation.
Objective -2: Conduct context specific adaptive researches for
validation and refinement of technologies in cereal and
aquaculture systems
Objective 3: Capacity building of stakeholders for technology
dissemination and adoption
Objective-4: Socio-economic and farming system analysis for
improvement of market linkage and livelihood systems for
agricultural growth and sustainable poverty reduction.
Objective-5: Developing of user friendly knowledge and
information delivery systems for the agricultural stakeholders.

4. Vision of success
 Direct project participants 60,000 ( Khulna hub -6000 aquaculture
beneficiaries).
 Annual HH income increases by 350 dollars through income from crop &
fish productivity.
 Secondary adopters 300,000 (through demonstrations, field days, training
etc).
 Ultimate aggregate benefit will over 1 million rural HH through linkages &
synergies with GO-NGO-Private sectors, other national / international
projects.

6. Bangladesh MapWorking Districts & Upazilas at Khulna Hub
Total: 12 Upazilas
1. Khulna district
- Dumuria
- Botiaghata
- Rupsha
- Fultala
2. Satkhira district
- Debhata
- Shyamnagar
- Kaligonj
- Satkhira Sadar
- Kalaroa
3. Bagerhat district
- Chitalmari
- Rampal
- Fakirhat
Khulna Hub

7. CHARACTER
ISTICS
13. LOW GANGES RIVER FLOODPLAIN
Location and
extent
The region occupies all or most of Barisal, Jhalkathi, Pirojpur, Patuakhali, Barguna, Bagerhat, Khulna and Satkhira
districts. It includes the Khulna and Bagerhat sundarban forests. It is covered by 17066 km2 area.
Physiography Greater part has smooth relief.
River banks generally stand about a meter or less above the level of adjoining basins.
Characterized by a close network of interconnected tidal rivers and creeks.
Climate Mean annual rainfall is about 1700mm in the west and 3300mm in the south east.
Mean annual temperature is about 26.4oC.
Whole region lies within the cyclone zone.
Land and soil
type
Land type Percentage
Highland 2
Medium highland 78
Medium lowland 2
Lowland <1
Homestead, water 16
Water
sources
Provided with surface water resources. Most places are less than 500 metres from a tidal river or crack.
Ground water is saline in near surface aquifers throughout most of this region.
Sweet water occurs in aquifers at around 300 meters.
Major
cropping
pattern
Solely brackish water aquaculture in the south,
Aman rice-brackish water prawn culture,
Boro rice – prawn
Aman rice-fallow- sesame.
Natural mangrove forest
Development
constraints
Dry season salinity of soils.
Extremely acid soil condition in some region.
Exposure to cyclones and storm surges.
Highly floodprone in August-October which occasionally damage transplanted aman/ shrimp farms.
Remoteness of southern part of the region from urban markets.
Agro ecological characters of Khulna region
Soil type:
General pattern of grey, slightly calcareous loamy soils on river banks
and grey or dark grey, noncalcareous, heavy silty calys in the basin.
Extremely acid soil (acid sulfate soils) occur patchily in basin.

8. Fisheries Potentials in Khulna Hub
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Resources Khulna Bagerhat Satkhira Total
area (ha)No Area No Area (ha) No Area
( ha) (ha)
Ponds 33056 2436 3747 5668 2984 4439 12,543
Beels & flood
plain
27 2926 22 4232 152 16588 23,746
Bagda gher 21601 36403 39095 47900 14520 68012 152,315
Galda gher 29574 13028 38155 18566 966 7241 38,835
Ice factory 37 - 35 - 17 89
Fish feed Mill - - 2 - - s 2
Depot/ Arotdar 451 -- 274 - 137 862
Galda fish
hatchery
6 - 12 - 45 63
Bagda fish
hatchery
5 - - - 2 7
Research
station
1 - 1 - 2
Total cultivable area: 344,940 hac.
Fisheries resources: 227,439 hac ( 65 % of cultivable land)

9. “Gher aquaculture” has been emerging as the
dominant farming systems in this region (above 50%
of total cultivable land are used as Gher aquaculture,
and increasing by 10 % every year)
 Brackish water shrimp ( Tiger shrimp)
culture ( Aman - Shrimp )
• Freshwater shrimp ( Prawn) culture
(Boro-Prawn + Vege )
Gher
Gher farming

10. Sl.
No.
Major activities
1 Field based skill training to farmers ( 2days)
2 Refresher training to farmers (1 day)
3 Establish Farmer Participatory Demonstration Plots
4
Conduct context specific adaptive trial on improved varieties, technologies,
methods etc.
5
Organize Farmer Field Days on introduced method / result demonstrations.
Invite more neighbour farmers, other stakeholders into the field days.
7
Organize exposure visit for advance farmers, extension service providers, GO-
NGO staff.
8 Organize stakeholders workshop / meetings for experience sharing
9
Partnership with GO-NGO and Private sector for technology dissemination to
wider scale of farming people.
10 Collaboration with GO, universities, research station etc.
11 Capacity development of PNGO staff for technology adoption by the farmers.
12 Conduct Base line survey to evaluate the program.
13 Monitoring
Planned Fisheries Activities till date

11. Sl
no
Technologies Technologies focused on
1 Improved shrimp farming by stocking PCR
tested PL in gher.
• Nursery development.
• Stocking PCR tested PL
• Improve mgt.
2 Improved farming of prawn and carps in
gher systems and horticulture on dyke.
• Nursery dev.
• Stocking density.
• Improve mgt.
3 Improved farming of tilapia in gher and
horticulture on dyke.
• Increase cropping intensity.
•High density.
4 Improved farming of carp and fresh water
prawn in pond systems and horticulture on
dyke.
• Stocking large size fingerlings/
juveniles.
• Stocking density.
• Improved mgt.
5 HH based pond aquaculture (polyculture of
nutrient rich small fish with carp and/or
tilapia) and high value horticulture system.
• Stocking mola / tilapia.
• Dyke cultivation.
6 Improved carp nursery management for
large size quality fingerling production (Carp,
Tilapia, Pangus, Fresh water prawn)
• Improved nursery mgt.
• Quality fingerling.
7 Adaptive trial on cage aquaculture •Cage size-3mX3mX1.5m
Technology dissemination

12. Reaching the farmers (Capacity development of farmers)
Resource persons hired from:
- DoF, DAE
- Development project’s staffs
- Other aquaculture practitioners
Farmer’s training at Dumuria
1. Skill training:
- Small group formation.
- Training need assessment.
- 2 days (4 hrs each days) skill
training at field level.
- 1 day (4 hrs) refresher training
course at field level.

13. 2. Establish Farmer Driven Participatory
Demonstration plots on introducing
improved technologies at community level.
- To develop “Lead Farmers” to be acted as
local extension agent.
- To show the methods and results of
applied technologies to community farmers.
Reaching the farmers

14. Reaching the farmers
3. Organize Field days:
 Method demonstration on
introduced technologies
 Result demonstration on introduced
technologies.
 Target participants -Direct & indirect
farmers, entrepreneurs, local elites,
GO-NGO & Private sectors
practitioners.
4. Organize Exposure visit:
Advance farmers, PNGO extension
workers, project staffs are the target
participants.
Field day at Shyamnager

15. Reaching the farmers
9 women involved with cage
aquaculture at Botiaghata
Upazila
Average production
obtained: 27 kg/ mᵌ/ cycle
( 3 ½ months)
5. Conduct context specific
adaptive trial for varieties,
technologies

16. 8. Household nutritional propagation
 Orange Flesh Sweet Potato (OFSP) vines distributed to
125 families
 Summer tomato cultivation.
Reaching the farmers

17. Reaching the farmers
6. Capacity development of the partner organizations for delivering extension
services to farmers.
- MOU development
-Extension staff training
-Meeting / Workshop
-Reporting
7. Linkages / Collaboration with GO-NGO- Private sector line agencies for
resources mobilization, experience sharing, policy reformation etc.
-MOU development ( GAZI Fish Culture Ltd., Spectra Hexa Feed Co Ltd (
MEGA Feed)
-Organize workshop
-Media publication
-Individual contact
-Training materials development & distribution.
.

18. Partnership to date
National & local NGOs BRAC, TMSS, UTTARAN & Renaissance.
Private sectors Gazi Fish Culture Ltd., Quality Scientific
Fish Hatcheries & Nurseries, Milemara
Depot and one CBO.
Role / Responsibilities of partners
 Organizing the farmers at community level.
 Baseline survey
 Sharing of resources / equipments.
 Establishing the demonstration plots.
 Day to day monitoring the target farmers.
 Information delivery.
 Developing extension agents at community level.
 Ensuring/ distribute quality inputs to the farmers.
 Networking with GO-NGO- Private sectors .

19. Results / Outcomes
 Farmers have been adopting improved technologies ( feeding,
liming, PCR tested PL , nursery development etc.
 Demand of quality inputs has increased.
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261031
228326 232272
369415
544463 530989
342418
0
100000
200000
300000
400000
500000
600000
Shrimp Prawn Carp + Prawn Tilapia
Cost Tk/ hac
Gross return Tk
148.2 380.38
1852.5 1729
395.2 642.2
3186.3
5928
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
7000
Shrimp in gher (
single cycle)
Prawn in gher Carp + Prawn in
pond
Tilapia in gher (
single cycle)
Baseline Prod kg/ha
Obtained Prod kg/ha
Fig-1 Production in kg/ha
Fig-2 Cost & Return Tk/ ha

20. Sl.
No.
Activities Year 1 Year-2
Target
Achieve
ment till
date
Achievement
till to date
Remarks
1 Training provided to farmers 750 955 1005 1755 30 %
female
participa
nts
2 Refresher training provided to
farmers
0 650 714 714
3 Demonstration established 13 38 25 38
4
Adaptive trial on cage
aquaculture (continuation from
1st YR)
9 women
involved
with cage
aquaculture
15 new
cages
9 9
5
Farmer Field Days organized 2 98 7 15
Farmers attended 120 3000 660 780
6
Cross visit 5 batches (for 75
farmers)
12 75 0 12
7 Workshop (Hatchery Workshop) 0 2 1 1
8 ToT for Extension staff 20 9 9 29
9 Base line survey of selected farmers 750 955 855 1605
Progress till to date

21. Lessons Learnt
1. Huge number of farmers are remained behind from any extension services
(lack of improved knowledge, technological information, skills etc)
2. Need long term / consistent extension supports to the farmers for adopting
improved technologies by the farmers.
3. Farmer Driven Participatory Technology Dissemination / adaptive trial
activities need to be strengthened for technology dissemination /
adoption rather than traditional farmers training.
4. Diverse and traditional culture practices by the farmers results poor yield per
unit area.
5. There is demand for quality inputs ( PCR tested quality PL).
6. Linkage between Value Chain actors & producers need to be strengthened
for sustainable aquaculture.

22. Challenges and Constraints
 Selection of right project participants.
 Ensuring quality inputs to farmers in right time.
 Integrated extension supports to farming people.
 Mobilizing the resources/ services of GO-NGO-Private sectors.
 Adoption of improved technologies by the farmers.
 To increase cropping intensities and Risk reducing technologies for
farming system.
 Aquaculture ( especially Prawn/ Shrimp farming ) is a capital intensive
enterprise and need proper management for optimal production.
 Disease infection especially viral disease outbreak in shrimp farming.
 Natural hazards like draught has been affecting seriously.
 Scarcity and high price of quality inputs ( PL, feed etc).
 Weak market linkages for real prices of produce.
 Limited extension service at field level need more work force even in a
single cluster .
 Participation of partner organization for wider dissemination.
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