Vol. 3, Issue 5, Part K (2017)

Paddy alternate fish culture is a combination of agriculture and business. It is suggested that fish culture in rice fields was introduced into South-East Asia about 1500 years ago especially in India. The most common indigenous fishes found in South-East Asia especially in India are white fish (Ruhi Fish, Katla, Mrigel, Silver Curp and so on). Instead of white fish cultivation there has some other fish culture like - Venami prawn, Lobster, etc. along the bank of river.

Our study area is Moyna Community Development Block under Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal, India. Our principle objective is to examine a critical analysis on the fish farming of this area. We collect both primary and secondary data. Primary data has collected by both door to door random sampling survey and the computer assisted telephonic interviews (CATI). We have collected sample from 100 fishermen. In this study we found that total expenditure was Rs. 12,000/katha for white fish farming and selling price was Rs. 15,000, i.e. the actually profit was Rs. 3,000/-. And we also tried to find out the correlation between the expenditure and selling price of white fish cultivation where we discover that there has a strong relationship between the expenditure and selling price. And we also found that there has a huge profit to Venami prawn cultivation and farming i.e. 43.5%.