ECONOMICS OF AQUACULTURE FEEDING SYSTEMS IN TRIPURA, INDIA

This book provides an analysis of aquaculture feeding practices in Tripura, a north eastern state of India. The study analyzed demographic factors (including age and marital status, education and ownership structure), physical characteristics (average number of ponds and average pond size), and other input features (stocking strategies, feeding practices, types of feed, frequency and intensity of feeding and labour utilization). The study also identified the principal input costs, assessed the economic rates of return (gross and net margins), returns to labour, land and capital, gross and net total factor productivity, break-even prices and production and returns on capital for the feeding practices in the state.