Evaluation Of Problems Aquaculture Industry in India - An Analytical Study

Abstract

Purpose- India is second only to China in the total area dedicated to fish farming, making it the world's third-largest fish producer. In Andhra Pradesh, East & West Godavari districts are known to cultivate fish farming in a large extent through large hectors of land. It is known that many of the farmers are getting loss in the fish farming due to various factors like ''food they use for bay fish, marketing problems, transportation problems, government policies'' etc. . Therefore, this may helps to identify the major problems which are the part of fish farming. This study will also helps to understand the new rural entrepreneurs who wants to start aqua business.

Design/methodology/approach- After getting the empirical data from the aqua farmers, the analysis identifies the major factors which impacts the problems of aqua through factor analysis. After that, the researcher checked for normality through Kolmogorov and smirnove test. Further analysis is done with parametric tests. It is am empirical study with a sample of 75 respondents. The population is the total number of Aqua-culture farmers in East & West Godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh. The sample is extracted through convenience sampling technique.

Findings- All the problems which affects aqua-culture farming are classified under four factors namely ''Government support factors, Legal factors, Competition and Value added factors''. Further, the researcher has developed the hypotheses based on the above four factors tested for the significance. significant differences are identified in the perceptions of the aqua-farmers on ''legal factors and value added factors''. Therefore, it is identified that the major problems of aqua-culture farming are Strict Quality Standards, Low Price Realization, Trade Barrier, Inadequate Infrastructure Facilities, No Information about Foreign Market, Poor Government Support, Legal procedures, High Operational Cost, Tough Competition and Inadequate Value Added Products.

Originality - this study is the first to show the problems of Aqua-culture in East & West Godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh with empirical data.