Economic feasibility of community-based fish culture in seasonally flooded rice fields in Bangladesh and Vietnam

Aquaculture Economics and Management

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 65-88

  Dey, Madan Mohan ^a   Prein, Mark ^a   Haque, A B M Mahfuzul ^b   Sultana, Parvin ^a   Dan, Nguyen Cong ^c   Van Hao, Nguyen ^a  

^a WORLDFISH   (Malaysia)

^b Research Institute for Aquaculture No 1 ^*

^c Ministry of Fisheries Vietnam   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Community based management; Economic feasibility; Floodplain agriculture; Rice fish culture

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FISH CULTURE; FLOODPLAIN; RICE;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM; WORLD;

EID: 25844464081     PISSN: 13657305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13657300590961591     Document Type: Article

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