Journal of Aquaculture Research & Development

Bangladesh

Biography

Alam MT, Department of Fisheries, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi 6205, Bangladesh. The publication stats include that the number of articles published are 40 and the number of times cited was 229. The area of interest in the research is management and development of marine science.

Publications

• Research Article   
  Socio Economics and Livelihoods of Beel Fishermen: Cases from NorthWestern Bangladesh
  Author(s): Ahamed GS, Alam MT*, Hussain MA and Sultana S
  
  The socio-economic condition and livelihood was studied. Religious status of the study area was more or less equal- 52.66% Muslim and 47.34% Hindu. Educational condition was very poor- 65.96% of the total fishermen are either illiterate or can sign only, the major group (35.11%) of fisherman was young of 21-30 years of age, average household size of the two beels was 4.75, Most of the fishermen family were poor- 79.79% houses were kacha and only 3.72% were pucca houses, 80.85% fishermen use drinking water from other’s tube well, 64.89% fishermen do not use electricity, sanitation condition of the study area is very poor- 51.06% fishermen have no sanitation facility and only 12.77 have pucca sanitation facility, the ratio of on farm and off farm was 1:0.25 indicating greatly dependency of the fishermen’s livelihood on the beels. In terms of well-being .. View more»
  

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