About 55 to 60% of the population in India is dependent on agriculture, but due to different reasons, farmers are constantly looking for other options due to not getting profit in traditional farming. Such farmers do fish farming by adopting aquaculture and earn a decent income. The government also keeps on encouraging the farmers to do the work of fish farming with new techniques. One of these techniques is “mixed fish farming” which can be adopted to produce 5 times more fish.

In this technique, fish of different species are reared together in the same pond. It is beneficial to keep fishes like Katla, Mrigal, Rohu in native fishes and silver carp, grass carp and common carp etc. in foreign fishes together. During this, keep in mind that outside fishes should not enter the pond and the fishes of the pond should not go out.

By adopting the technique of mixed fish farming, tremendous production can be taken from one pond twice in a year. Farmers can get continuous production for 16 to 20 years by doing fish farming in a pond of 1 acre area. By doing this, the farmer can earn up to Rs 5 to 8 lakh every year.

Source: Aaj Tak

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