A STUDY ON PANGUS CULTIVATION AT FARM LEVEL IN SOME SELECTED AREAS OF MYMENSINGH DISTRICT

Abstract

Pangus is a fast-growing fish species that has great potential for production and export growth in Bangladesh. The study was conducted to determine the socio-economic profile,costand return and profitability analysis of pangus farming. The study area selected in Bhaluka and Trishal in Mymensingh district. A total of 92 farmers were selected on the basis of random sampling technique for data collection in 2018. To achieve the objectives of our study both descriptive and statistical analysis were done using Microsoft Excel. It was estimated that gross return and net return were Tk. 2470,560 and Tk. 340,825per year respectively.Benefit cost ratio was 1.16 which indicate potential profit from pangus cultivation from the study area. Cobb-Douglas production function was applied to identify the specific effect of the factors on production. Among the variables cost feed, cost of fertilizer and water treatment costwere positive coefficient and significant impact on return of the pangus production. The adjusted R 2 was 0.61 which indicates that about 61%return from pangus culture was explained by variables included in this model and 39% variables excluded from this model. From returns to scale it shows that all the inputs specified the production increased by 1%, the gross return increase by 5%. From survey analysis the major problems mentioned by the cultivators were lack of money, lack of proper knowledge of farming, adulterate feed, insufficient scientific training, poor and inconsistent market price. It is suggested that government interventions, market facilities and quality of inputs should be improved to ensure profit from pangus production.