Level of Shrimp Farming Knowledge of Farmers in Bagerhat

Abstract

A total of 120 fanners from six upazila under Bagerhat district were selected for determination of their shrimp farming knowledge during the period from July to September, 2008. The shrimp farming knowledge consisted of six levels such as, remembering, understanding, problem identifying, analyzing, evaluating and innovating. The shrimp fanning knowledge of the farmers on different aspect of culture practices such as, pond preparation, aquatic species of the pond, species selection and stocking density, water color monitoring, pond fertilization, feed and feeding, disease control, harvesting and restocking, risk management and shrimp marketing revealed that the selected farmers had medium level of knowledge on an average. A few portion of the shrimp farmers had high level of knowledge. Farmers' knowledge score on the subsequent levels of cognitive domain on remembering, understanding, problem identifying, analyzing, evaluating and innovating were found to be in diminishing order in all the components of shrimp farming practices. Among the six levels of knowledge, the farmers had highest score on remembering and lowest score on innovating. The personal characteristics of the farmers such as age, gender, education, major profession, annual income, land holding, training status, extension media contact and shrimp fanning experience were observed to be significantly related with their shrimp farming knowledge.