Impact of covid-19 on smallholder aquaculture farmers and their response strategies: empirical evidence from Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s aquaculture sector has contributed progressively to the nation’s economy over the years, but the COVID-19 pandemic has impeded fish farmers’ access to markets, reduced their production and sales capacity, resulted in lower income, and increased food security vulnerability. This study as...
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| author | Alam, G. M. Monirul Sarker, Md Nazirul Islam Kamal, Md Abdus Samad Khatun, Most Nilufa Bhandari, Humnath |
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| description | Bangladesh’s aquaculture sector has contributed progressively to the nation’s economy over the years, but the COVID-19 pandemic has impeded fish farmers’ access to markets, reduced their production and sales capacity, resulted in lower income, and increased food security vulnerability. This study assesses how COVID-19 affects smallholder fish farmers and their response strategies by employing data collected from 250 fish farmers and traders from intensive fish-growing areas of Bangladesh. The results reveal that most farmers experienced difficulty obtaining inputs, and the price of those inputs skyrocketed during the COVID-19 period, resulting in several months of decreased production and operations. As a result of COVID-19, farm gate prices for silver carp, ruhu, common carp, grass carp, and tilapia fish dropped by 25%, 23%, 23%, 22%, 23%, and 40%, respectively. On the other hand, fish feed prices were found to increase significantly. Reduced income from fish farming and other sources has triggered a significant drop in capital for farming operations and production capacity improvement, leading to food insecurity. The most common coping strategies include reduced buying from the market (vegetables, fruits, meat, milk, etc.), relying on less expensive or less preferred food, purchasing food on credit, and selling assets. Notably, due to COVID-19, a new mode of marketing has evolved as an adaptation strategy in the fish marketing system, such as the use of the mobile phone (18%) and Facebook/internet to sell fish directly to the customer (16%). The sector requires short-term financial assistance to assist fish actors with production and marketing challenges. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1639932025-12-08T10:29:22Z Impact of covid-19 on smallholder aquaculture farmers and their response strategies: empirical evidence from Bangladesh Alam, G. M. Monirul Sarker, Md Nazirul Islam Kamal, Md Abdus Samad Khatun, Most Nilufa Bhandari, Humnath agrifood systems agro-industrial sector aquaculturists sustainability bangladesh food systems value chains Bangladesh’s aquaculture sector has contributed progressively to the nation’s economy over the years, but the COVID-19 pandemic has impeded fish farmers’ access to markets, reduced their production and sales capacity, resulted in lower income, and increased food security vulnerability. This study assesses how COVID-19 affects smallholder fish farmers and their response strategies by employing data collected from 250 fish farmers and traders from intensive fish-growing areas of Bangladesh. The results reveal that most farmers experienced difficulty obtaining inputs, and the price of those inputs skyrocketed during the COVID-19 period, resulting in several months of decreased production and operations. As a result of COVID-19, farm gate prices for silver carp, ruhu, common carp, grass carp, and tilapia fish dropped by 25%, 23%, 23%, 22%, 23%, and 40%, respectively. On the other hand, fish feed prices were found to increase significantly. Reduced income from fish farming and other sources has triggered a significant drop in capital for farming operations and production capacity improvement, leading to food insecurity. The most common coping strategies include reduced buying from the market (vegetables, fruits, meat, milk, etc.), relying on less expensive or less preferred food, purchasing food on credit, and selling assets. Notably, due to COVID-19, a new mode of marketing has evolved as an adaptation strategy in the fish marketing system, such as the use of the mobile phone (18%) and Facebook/internet to sell fish directly to the customer (16%). The sector requires short-term financial assistance to assist fish actors with production and marketing challenges. 2023-02-01 2024-12-19T12:53:18Z 2024-12-19T12:53:18Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/163993 en Open Access MDPI Alam, G. M. Monirul; Sarker, Md Nazirul Islam; Kamal, Md Abdus Samad; Khatun, Most Nilufa and Bhandari, Humnath. 2023. Impact of covid-19 on smallholder aquaculture farmers and their response strategies: empirical evidence from Bangladesh. Sustainability, Volume 15 no. 3 p. 2638 |
| spellingShingle | agrifood systems agro-industrial sector aquaculturists sustainability bangladesh food systems value chains Alam, G. M. Monirul Sarker, Md Nazirul Islam Kamal, Md Abdus Samad Khatun, Most Nilufa Bhandari, Humnath Impact of covid-19 on smallholder aquaculture farmers and their response strategies: empirical evidence from Bangladesh |
| title | Impact of covid-19 on smallholder aquaculture farmers and their response strategies: empirical evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_full | Impact of covid-19 on smallholder aquaculture farmers and their response strategies: empirical evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_fullStr | Impact of covid-19 on smallholder aquaculture farmers and their response strategies: empirical evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impact of covid-19 on smallholder aquaculture farmers and their response strategies: empirical evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_short | Impact of covid-19 on smallholder aquaculture farmers and their response strategies: empirical evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_sort | impact of covid 19 on smallholder aquaculture farmers and their response strategies empirical evidence from bangladesh |
| topic | agrifood systems agro-industrial sector aquaculturists sustainability bangladesh food systems value chains |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/163993 |
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