| Author | Sok Vanna |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.RD-01-01 |
| Subject(s) | ond aquaculture--Cambodia--Svay Rieng
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master
of Science, School of Environment, Resources and Development |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | The research is to study the impact of the small-scale aquaculture development
implemented by Department of Fishery (DOF), Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries, the Royal Cambodia Government in collaboration with and support by the AIT
Aqua Outreach Program in Svay Rieng Province, Cambodia. This is to understand causes
and effects of farmers in continuing or stopping culturing fish and how it contributes to the
overall farm economy. The improvement of the small-scale aquaculture technology to
increase food sufficiency and protein consumption and income to reduce the poverty and
increase the quality of life is also the implications of this study. The research examined the
level of adoption, factors influencing farmers in their decision-making to adopt or reject
aquaculture, socio-economic, institutional and environmental impacts to farmers, farmer's
attitudes and behaviors with regard to the adoption of aquaculture, and to identify
problems, constraints and potentials in the aquaculture.
The study showed that food sufficiency was increased from 13.2 kg/capita/year to
16.6 kg/capita/year. The housing condition of trial farmers was the same as before. It
means that there is no change during raising fish. The household occupation is also still the
same. Other indicators such as household assets, household income, fish production, and
marketing condition are positively changes from the beginning of fish culture until present.
The institutional impact has significant change among the trial farmers that supported by
the project. There are also significantly changes in the accessibility of training, extension
service, knowledge, and technological transfer among the trial farmers. The environmental
impact of the small-scale aquaculture was found both positively and negatively. The
positive impact was the reduction of farmer's activity in catching wild fish and started
applying the integration of farming systems. The negative impact of environment to smallscale aquaculture are regarded the heavy rain, flood, and drought.
Several key recommendations were given to improve the fish production and to
strengthen the institutional support. Specific suggestions were given to the Department of
Fisheries and AIT Aquaculture Outreach Program in specific to improve various aspects of
the project performance. Finally, the strategy to promote a small-scale aquaculture in
Cambodia is outlined based on the findings from this study, which is useful for the DOF in
the future application of this kind of project to the rest of country.
In the context of utilization, this study is useful for project personnel to understand
farmer's needs and impacts on aquaculture to rural livelihood and to analyze factors
influencing on the decision making of farmers. For governmental institution i.e., the DOF
will gain a good experience and lessons learned in aquaculture development as well as the
extension methods to apply for the poor farmers in the country. For rural development
agencies, they will gain ideas of the promotion on fish farm economy that could raise up
the standard of living of the rural poor by increasing their household supplementary
income and food sufficiency.
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| Year | 2001 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Rural Development, Gender and Resources (RD) |
| Chairperson(s) | Soparth Pongquan |
| Examination Committee(s) | Demaine, Harvey ;Routray, Jayant K. |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation
(NORAD) |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2001 |