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Integrated Fish Farming for Nutritional Security in Eastern Himalayas, India

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Pages 157-165 | Published online: 26 May 2011
 

Abstract

An experiment was conducted in the North Eastern Himalayan region of India to evaluate the productivity of different animal-fish integrations viz. duck-cum-fish, poultry-cum-fish, goat-cum-fish, pig-cum-fish, and cattle-cum-fish. Among various integrations, cattle-cum-fish had the maximum fish yield (2,686.0 kg/ha), followed by fish-cum-duck (2,173.0 kg/ha), fish-cum-pig (2,046.0 kg/ha), fish-cum-poultry (2,006.0 kg/ha), and fish-cum-goat (1,867.0 kg/ha) compared to 757.0 kg/ha in unfed/unfertilized control ponds. Among fish species, highest growth rate was recorded for silver carp (Hypopthalmichthys molitrix) in all the integrations (201.0 to 591.0 g/fish), followed by mrigal (Cirrhinus mrigala, 160.0 to 370.0 g/fish). The implications of the results for development of suitable integrated agro-aquaculture models in humid tropics are discussed.

Acknowledgments

The authors express their gratitude to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Government of India, New Delhi, for financial assistance in the form of a research grant.

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