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Homestead Production Systems in Coastal areas of North 24 Parganas – Current Status and Oportunities

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Title Homestead Production Systems in Coastal areas of North 24 Parganas – Current Status and Oportunities
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Creator SUBHASIS MANDAL, D. BURMAN, S. K. SARANGI, B. K. BANDYPADHYAY and B. MAJI
 
Subject Homestead production system, economics, coastal agriculture
 
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part of the daily household activities and way of life.
They contribute significantly towards meeting the
daily needs of food and nutrition, cash income, and
employment for the whole family, mitigating price
or output shocks due to unforeseen events and the
overall fight against poverty. A survey was conducted
in coastal blocks in North 24 Parganas district of
West Bengal to understand the current status and
opportunities to improve the HPS towards better
livelihoods of the farming communities. Resource
use of HPS can be more productive and contributing
to the goal of regional food security. There is a need to enhance the production capacity of HPS. To achieve
this, farmers need assured supply of quality inputs and
training on production management of all enterprises,
fish, vegetables and livestock. Since HPS is an all-out
family affair, training programs should focus on the
whole family, including men, women and children
(12-18 years of age). In addition to training, farmers
need technical and financial support to enhance their
investment capacities as well as technical support to
make the resources use more productive. Enhancing
production level would increase the quantity of
marketable surplus and thereby more contribution
to the regional production. Therefore, the role and contribution of HPS deserves more importance
and attention at the national level. Quantification
of tangible outputs and valuation of the intangible
outputs from HPS is quite complex and difficult.
There is a need to develop quantitative techniques
and protocols for its valuation. However, production
of commodities from HPS is small in quantity,
non-capital intensive, and the scope for increasing
the area under HPS is limited. Therefore, HPS are weakly linked with market demand. In general, the
HPS in the study area could not be termed as market
responsive i.e., the supply-demand situation has
very limited scope to alter the production level of
these commodities. However, vegetable production
systems under HPS are more intensive, using more
modern technology (seeds, chemicals) and more
market demand responsive than the aquaculture
production systems which were more of traditional.
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Date 2018-11-12T11:31:59Z
2018-11-12T11:31:59Z
2013-12-01
 
Type Other
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/10553
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Indian Society of Coastal Agricultural Research