Vol. 11, Special Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
Rishav Mondal, Jayant Zechariah, Dr. Nitin Barkar, Dr. Anupriya Paul and Pritesh Dwivedi

Abstract:
Tiger Prawn is a fastest growing species. It used in aquaculture with major potentiality in India, Bangladesh and a few other countries. India is the major producer of tiger prawn, India is one of the major shrimps producing country, possesses a huge brackish water area that is highly suitable for prawn farming. A total of 620,000 metric ton of shrimps were produced from an estimated area of 11.90 lac ha from India in the year 2020-2021. The state of West Bengal in India has an immense potential for commercial shrimp farming and presently three coastal districts North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas and East Midnapore having brackish water area of about 2.10 lakh ha are suitable for coastal farming. The dominant species under culture in West Bengal is Penaeus Monodon due to its high unit value realization and over expanding export demand. The production of Penaeus monodon through aquaculture in West Bengal was about estimated 19,190 ton and area under culture 50,000 hectares. West Bengal ranks top in area under culture and production of tiger prawn in India. The study on the socio-economic status and of fishermen community associated with brackish water farming at South 24 Parganas. Due to various reasons, they replaced Tiger Shrimp (Penaeus monodon) culture and shifted to Vannamei (Litopenaeus vannamei) culture and fetching more productivity as well as profit in respect to same unit area. This research conducted in the study area to determine the socio-economic profile of the fishermen and the marketing cost, marketing margin, price spread in different marketing channel of tiger prawn.