Production, marketing, and future prospects of fish farming in Nepal: National and global scenario
2020
Khanal, Saugat | Khatri, Sushil | Khanal, Saurav | Yildiz, Fatih
To ensure a food security in future for all, the fisheries sector is key. The world’s demands for fish products indicate sign of increasing. This study delves into the analysis of production, marketing, and strategies for enhancing production and marketing of the fishery products. Secondary data for production and trade value were collected from different organizations, websites, and journals and were analyzed in Microsoft Excel. Over the years, rearing of different fish species has been rising worldwide, including Nepal. Marine, along with inland fisheries is getting profitable market, globally. Being a landlocked country, Nepal’s fish farming is solely limited to inland water resources. So, the domestic fish production is very few which is unable to meet the national demand. The fisheries, at national level, remarkably expanded than the previous decades and total production, trade, and consumption reached an all-time record in 2018. It has provided employment to millions of people across the world. Still many challenges have often hindered the production and marketing. Climatic changes, technological constraints, disease outbreaks, water temperature fluctuations, high cost of inputs, marketing constraints such as unmanaged distribution networks, lack of storage facilities, etc., have lowered down the fishery development. Keeping this point in view, this review was performed to provide the relevant solution of production and marketing strategies to the fishery industry, helping them to enhance the production and make perfect level of distribution. Marketing mix of marketing strategies and SWOT analysis for both production and marketing was performed.
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