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You can earn more profits in less cost than fish farming. Farmers of Aurangabad are also starting fisheries and are earning better than this. Dayanand Chaudhary, a farmer from Kutumba in Aurangabad district, is also doing fisheries. He has also shared the process of fisheries. Farmer Dayanand Chaudhary has been doing fisheries in two ponds of 16 kattha for the last two years and earning in millions annually. (Report: Rajkumar/ Aurangabad)

Farmer Dayanand Chaudhary told Local18 that he used to work in engineering workshop before fisheries. However, earning was not good. One day it was decided that fisheries should be made a means of employment. For that, applied online on the website of the Department of Fisheries. After which it was reported by the department and one week training was given in Patna. In which how to do fish farming and when is its right time.

The farmer told that here Rohu, Katla, blocks, common cut fish are followed. Whose price in the market is Rs 150- 200 per kg. At the same time, there is a profit of 50%. The farmer said that initially 2 thousand seeds were put in the pond. Explain that Rs 5 per piece is left. Dayanand Chaudhary said that in 16 kattas, it costs about 4 lakh rupees in fisheries. At the same time, fish is ready up to 8 lakh rupees in 40 to 50 days.

Explain that for fisheries, guidelines are given from time to time by the officials and doctors of the Department of Fisheries. The farmer said that 50% of the water of the pond should be changed every 15 days. At the same time, there is a possibility of 12 types of diseases in the fish, due to which the farmer also suffers damage.

There are many ways to identify the disease in fish. If the fish walk on the banks of the pond and do not have much stir in the pond and come over the water, then these are indications about their being patient.

For this, the advice of the doctors of the fisheries department is taken from time to time and the drug mentioned by them is sprayed. At the same time, the chosen is also sprayed in the pond.