Shortage of fish seed is major constraint in Fish culture. Although the The production has been increased in terms of hatchlings but their poor survival is one of the major problems. Lack of suitable live food is major factor for mortality. In rural area where farmers are not much equipped with technology and resources, they depend largely on indigenous method. The authors have tried to develop an indigenous method to culture Daphnia to provide feed the larval size fish. The method involves the use of locally available poultry litter, Goat dung and cow dung which is very easily available in...

Among all carps, rohu has got most preference due to its taste and palatability in Chhattisgarh, but this study shows that Catla is having equally ample nutrients along with high content of protein (more than Rohu), less content of fat (lesser than common carp) and its cost is also less than rohu.Can be referred as a good source of animal protein in peoples daily diet. The highest content of protein was recorded in Catla 18.68% whereas it was lowest in common carp 15.36%.The moisture was found to be inversely proportional to lipid content, as also reported by FAO (1999). It can be concluded...

Among different cropping sequences evaluated T7 (rice-potato-cowpea) system was identified to be most productive with rice-equivalent yield of (270.39 q ha-1 year-1). The next best sequence was T5 (rice-brinjal-GM) with (213.19 q ha-1 year-1) rice- equivalent yield. T7 (Rice-potato-cowpea) cropping sequences gave significantly higher production efficiency (83.97kg ha-1 day-1), profitability (Rs 320.36 ha-1 day-1) and relative economic efficiency and (199.29 per cent). Net return of higher Rs. 116929 ha-1 year-1 was obtained under T7 (rice-potato-cowpea) but the maximum B: C ratio was recorded...

Rajnandgaon district has many hilly forests, plateau areas and varied natural aquatic resources suitable for agriculture and fisheries. Because biodiversity is important for sustainable ecosystem conservation so this district was selected for the study purpose. Fish diversity studies were done in the five river basins viz., (i) Sheonath basin (ii) Baghnadi basin (iii) Kotrinadi basin (iv)Pairynadi basin and (v) Aamer basin. In the present study a total of 63 species belonging to 37 genera, 20 families and 7 orders were recorded from 14 sampling sites with seven new species: Crossocheilus...