Department of Zoology, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh
Sultana S, currently working at Department of Economics, Bangladesh University of Business and Technology, 3 Mirpur, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh. The number of articles published are 09 and the number of times cited by, are 21 and the number reads include are 3,627. The area of interest in the research was Fisheries, Marine Ecology, Planktology, Animal Science and Agricultural Studies.
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»