Fisheries and Aquaculture Journal
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Department of Agriculture and Forestry, Agriculture and Forestry University, Chitwan, Nepal

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• Review Article   
  Fish Farming Practices and Disease Occurrence in the Fish Farms of Dhanusha District, Nepal
  Author(s): Manish Yadav*, Rahul Ranjan and Tapendra Bahadur Shah
  
  Dhanusha is one of the leading fish producing districts in Nepal and the fish farming is increasing in the district to establish the district as a ‘fisheries center’. However, with the increasing fish farming and intensity, a number of diseases find their way to the farm which may hinder the progress of fish farming. Present study was carried out in CFPCC21/22 to assess the fish farming practices and the disease occurrence in fish farms of Dhanusha district. Questionnaire based personal interviews were conducted with 64 fish farmers selected from all over the district using simple random sampling. Majority of the respondents were males (89.1%), in the active age group of 30-50 years (71.9%), with average experience of more than 15 years (39%) in fish farming. The widely adopted farming system was carp polyculture, however, some of the farmers also culture other species lik.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2150-3508.23.14.338

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