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Special pisciculture project

Jessore likely to produce surplus fish from 1996-97

From Our Correspondent
JESSORE. Mar 27: Jessore district is likely to produce surplus fish from 1996-97 following massive development In pisciculture recently.
Implementation of Baor or OLP (Oxbow Lake Projects) under second phase by Jessore olAcc of Bed Baor Fisheries Development and Management Projects, will bring this return. Monitored by Donor agencies, and supervised by implementing authority, projects are scheduled to be Completed in 1995-96.
Ten OLP were taken up in 1988-89. These included Koikata Bookvora and Hamid -pur of sadar. Khatura. Kheda-para. Jhapa, Hariharpur of Monirampur. Bakra of Jbiker-gacha. Bahadurpur and Kan-nadah of SharSba in the district. covering water area of 657 hectares in total.
The Donar Agencies arc IFAD..DANIDA. WFP in addilion to government fund for the projects..
According to source. IFAD shared Taka 22.33. crore. DANIDA Taka 7.02cr. GOB Taka 1.35Cr. and WFP contributed wheat1 worth Taka 28.10 lakh. OLPs have been implemented as per latest technology of modern science and technology to achieve target of 700 kg. of fish per hectare.
According to this estimate, fish production will come to 4.59.900 kgs slightly less than 460 metric tons. Existing fish production capacity in the district, according to district fishers office hand-out.- is 16.762.20 metric tons. Total requirement to feed entire population of the district is 16.352 metric tons. This has been assessed as per requirement of fish per head a day. The rate is 16 grains per head per day and total population of the district is 28 lakh.
. Therefore total fish pro-. duction wilrsHse to 17.322 metric tons. X.
II appears that 970 tons of fish will remain surplus for supply to other districts.
It may be noted here that during first phase of the projects a good number of OLPs were developed giving highest output to cover deficit.
The supply of nutrition to general masses, promotion of economic condition, boosting fish production in selected
OLPs for. increasing bulk of supply in domestic markets were main objectives of the ■ project.
Enhancing the social dig-»nity of small and poor fishermen by providing help and financial benefits through development of fish culture and creating opportunities for more participation in fish culture were some* of the high-/ lights of the projects. /
Target group development and target production achievement are main components of the projects. /
Second phase wa/originally due to be completed in current fiscal. But jZllure to reach desired level on either target points has convinced Donor , and Government to extend deadline until end of this year.
Lake/management group and po6r fishermen, involving unprivileged and destitute womenfolks ar<»other high lights of the project to pro-tZote their socio-economic /conditions. It is alleged that at-/ tempt to organise lake-fishing team, fish farming group and fisheries related other target grpups as part of the project afe being sabotaged by a group of people. It was learnt that in Jhapa Baor of Monirampur there was an attempt to affect the progress of the project re-ceirtly.
In the backdrop of continued draught and due to adverse effects of Farakk many water bodies are being silted up. ultimately liecoming unfit
1 for acqua-culture. A compre^ hensive programme has^oeen drawn up to get of the silted part of the><0ater bodies.
• Accordingly sjltf-d part of QLPs are being converted into ponds through/fe-exc^vation Under food for works programme by distributing wheat either from I?AD or from WFP.
/ A source said that by re-ex-' cavating the ponds, another 200 hectares of water area will be available for pisciculture to produce 600 tones of addi tional fish. This has been ar ranged in the project to bring economic change, of poorest in rural Bangladesh.
Infrastructural development 01 OLP including control of water embankment construction, removal of acquatic weeds, electrification around OLP and financial aid enabling the tar get groups to buy necessary equipments such as net. boat fish fry. fish marketing mate: rials, are high lights of the projects.
When contacted a source of the project office informed (hat once all the OLP go into productions from next year. producUon of 2321 tons of fish worth Takes 6.16 crore will Increase every year. Implementation of the projects will provide Job "opportunity for 2.850 fishermen and people of landless community. This will bring about change in their socio-economic life and further, projects area will be connected with network of communication giving them new life.