Economic empowerment of tribal’s through fish collection co-operative societies

Abstract

The present investigation was carried out in Jaisamand Lake and Mahi Bajaj Sagar Dam in Udaipur & Banswara Districts of Rajasthan to know the knowledge level of the respondents regarding fish production technology. The findings revealed that of the general aspects the respondents had highest knowledge regarding important Indian fish species (MPS 92.50) and the least about the medicinal value of fishes (MPS 17.75). Among the fish breeding and rearing practices the study found that the highest knowledge was about suitable time of breeding among fishes in natural conditions (MPS 67.50). Regarding transportation and marketing of fishes, the practice with highest Mean Percent Score (94.50) was the knowledge of respondents regarding the agencies for selling of fishes and the practice with least MPS (34.37) was the technique of processing unsold fish.