Role of aquaculture in rural development

1. Presented By:
Name: Krishna
Reg. No. 2030316005
Dept. of Aquaculture
College of Fisheries,
(JAU), Veraval

2. Aquaculture play important role in food and nutrition by providing fish
and other marine and fresh-water products.
Fish is an excellent source of high quality animal protein that is easily
digestible.
Rural development, the process of sustained growth of the rural
economy and improvement of well-being of rural men, women and
children, has various dimensions.
Various types of aquaculture form an important component within
agricultural and farming systems development.

3. GLOBALAQUACULTURE:
STATUS, ISSUES AND PROSPECTS
 Aquaculture is the fastest growing food-producing sector in the
world.
 Global aquaculture production all-time high of 90.4 million
tonnes in 2012.
 Including 66.6 million tonnes of food fish and 23.8 million
tonnes of aquatic algae.
 China alone produced 43.5 million tonnes of food fish.

5. Share of Global Aquaculture in Fish
Production, 1997 and Forecast For 2020
Capture
69%
Aqua-
culture
31%
Fish production 1997
Capture
32%
Aqua-
culture
68%
Increase in fish production, 2020

6. AQUCULTURE PRODUCTS, THEIR
NUTRITIONAL VALUE AND CONSUMPTION
Food fish contributing more than 25% of the total animal protein.
Per capita fish consumption increased from 14.4 kg in 1990 to 19.2
kg in 2012 in world.
The International Conference on Sustainable Contribution of
Fisheries to Food Security, held in Kyoto, 1995, recognized that
aquatic products contribute to the maintenance of good nutrition.

7. AQUACULTURE PRODUCTS

8. ROLE OF AQUACULTURE IN
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
 Nutritional requirement
 Own enterprise
 Generating rural employment
 Recycling of the urban waste
 Infrastucture and other rural development
 Capacity building
 Utilization of common resources

9. ROLE OF AQUCULTURE IN
NUTRITION REQUIREMENT
• Fish “Rich food for Poor”;
cheapest animal protein.
• Fish enhances brain
development and learning in
children, protects vision and
eye health, and offers
protection from cardiovascular
disease and some cancers.

10. OWN ENTERPRISE
 Today aquaculture has become big
business in Asia, Latin America, North
America and Europe.
 These enterprises - whether in large
ponds, in sea cages or in tiny backyard
ponds - hold much promise for
meeting increasing food demands
 In fact, with most capture fisheries in
decline, aquaculture is the best way to
maintain and increase supplies of
saltwater and freshwater fish.

11. GENERATING RURAL EMPLOYMENT
 A large number of rural employments
are generated in aquaculture.
 The small-scale fish farming requires
less capital and more labour.
 The woman workers may easily be
engaged in fish farming.
 Fishermen are not only directly
employed in fish farming but also some
other alternative occupations like net
making, marketing of fish seed and
fishery product, transport, etc.

12. RECYCLE OF THE URBAN WASTE
 The urban waste (i.e. garbage)
may be recycled and be supplied
as fish feed to raise fish
production and to prevent the
environmental pollution in those
areas.
 This is the biological method of
treating waste water before its
final disposal in river.

13.  Due to supply chain management,some
rural infrastructures like connecting
roads for transport of fishes, markets
for selling/buying fishes, cold storages,
and electricity connection may be
developed.
 The rural development may bust up
purchasing power and standard of
living of rural.
INFRASTRUCTURE AND OTHER
RURAL DEVELOPMENT

14. CAPACITY BUILDING
capacity building is defined as the "process of
developing and strengthening the skills, instincts,
abilities, processes and resources that organizations and
communities need to survive, adapt, and thrive in the
fast-changing world.“

15. PARTICIPATORYAPPROACHES FOR
IMPROVING HOUSEHOLD FOOD
SECURITY AND NUTRITION
 Community-centred approaches
encourage self-reliance and self-
help.
 Making a significant contribution
to sustainable development at local
and national levels.

16. UTILIZATION OF THE COMMON
RESOURCES
Aquaculture can also benefit the landless from
utilization of common resources, such as finfish cage
culture, culture of molluscs and seaweeds, and
fisheries enhancement in communal water bodies.

17. FUTURE PROSPECTS
 India has a vast water resource potentiality. By utilizing these
water resources there are huge prospects of aquaculture of
fishes.
 These resources can be divided into two categories:
 Inland and
 Marine.
 Production of fishes through aquaculture may be a better
option to satisfy the demand of fishes as well as earning money
from exporting other states and even other countries.
 This practice may generate huge employment to the small and
marginal fishermen and fish farmers’ family members.

18. CONCLUSION
 Aquaculture has shown resilience to various economic crises in the
last decade.
 Aquaculture is a short duration of crop assuring quick return on
investment.
 Harvesting of fishes can be panned according to market demands for
fetching better prices
 Available information indicate, contribution of aquaculture to food
security, nutrition and employment opportunities is on the increase.
 Long term sustainability of aquaculture- economic, social &
environmental and contribution to food security depends on
commitment of governments and good governance.

19. Thank you!