GNAEC : Greater Noakhali Aquaculture Extension Component

Reference Book on Gender and Development

The book has been prepared as a reference book on different issues of gender & development. Conceptual ideas on gender and development, National and international observation of women development, Women & Law and Women in aquaculture issues are mainly included in the reference book. The information of the book was collected from different media and publications. The main purpose of the reference book is to increase the knowledge on gender and development for all level staff and extension trainer and also assist to conduct gender training staff, Extension Trainers and farmers.

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Integrated Rice Fish Farming

The manual has been developed with an aim to assist farmers in their decision making and management of their rice-fish farming. The manual basically focuses the practical field experiences of rice-fish cultivation gathered by farmers and staff. The document has been written using very simple language and examples with the support of relevant photographs easy to understand by all categories of readers. This document contains the elaborate discussion on feasibility, rice field ecosystem, field configuration, and total cultivation management, conservation of wild fish and different critical aspects of rice-fish farming. It was published in January 2003 by GNAEP.

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Technical Guideline for Farmer on Carp Polyculture with Golda in Pond:

The technical guideline on carp polyculture with Golda in pond has been developed to help farmers to recall and/or learn technical messages needed to manage carp polyculture with Golda in pond. Simple and key technical messages on pre-stocking, stocking and post-stocking activities with appropriate photographs and tables have been provided in the book for better understanding of the farmers.

The inputs for fish culture are given emphasis on farmers' ability and resources availability in locally. General problems faced by farmers, their possible solutions are described in table-4. The daily route work and fish culture activity calendar also included in the farmers' handbook. It was published first in April 2000 by GNAEP. Drawing illustration was used in first edition. The second edition was published in November 2001 with reviewed of some technical recommendation based on field condition and illustrated photographs.

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Farmer Training Manual to be used by Extension Trainer

The farmer training manual has been developed as a session guide for Extension Trainer to conduct farmer training effectively. The training manual is included ten learning sessions (each session is mentioned as a module).

Pre-stocking, stocking and post-stocking management is covered by 6 learning session, social and gender awareness is covered by 2 session and one session is included as review session in the manual. Each session is delivered to the farmer group at pond site and takes place 2-3 hours. In this manual each session is described particularly the sequence and methods of session delivery to the farmers group. One session takes place in a month and finally completed in 10 months. It was published first in April 2000 by GNAEP. The second edition was published in December 2001 with some modification based on field recommendation.

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