Knowledge and skill development of Bihar farmers on inland fisheries management: A terminal evaluation

The state of Bihar in India has a huge potential in fisheries and the research institutes of Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) are involved in building capacity of the fish farmers of the state. Since 2012-13 to 2014-15 about 1279 fish farmers from 21 districts of Bihar State were trained under the Department of Fisheries/Agricultural Technology Management Agency schemes by ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute on inland fisheries management. An ex-post facto study was undertaken to measure the effectiveness of these training programmes. Data were collected from 400 trainees from six different districts of Bihar using a semi-structured interview schedule. The Training Effectiveness Index (TEI) was developed and the results of the study indicated that the logistic regression analysis with socio-economic variables like main occupation, land holding, membership in organisations had positive and significant effect on training effectiveness. The overall effectiveness of training was found to be 87.86% which was recorded under the high effectiveness category. The results also revealed that 44.8% of the trainees were young and they also had positive effect on training effectiveness. About 53% of the farmers perceived that the training situation provided to them was highly satisfactory. The farmers also perceived that these trainings helped them to increase their knowledge and skill, enhance entrepreneurial ability and also motivated them to initiate new enterprises.

PENGUATAN KEARIFAN LOKAL SEBAGAI LANDASAN PENGELOLAAN PERIKANANPERAIRAN UMUM DARATAN DI SUMATERA

<p>Kearifan lokal merupakan suatu nilai budaya yang tidak terlepas dari kehidupan masyarakat Indonesia dan diakui keberadaannya oleh hukum negara. Kearifan lokal yang masih berlakudi dalam kehidupan masyarakat Sumatera terkait dengan pengelolaan perikanan perairan umum daratan terdiri dari lelang lebak lebung (Sumatera Selatan), lubuk larangan (Jambi dan Sumatera Barat), rantau larangan (Riau), ma’uwo (Riau), dan upacara semah terubuk (Riau).Dari kelima kearifan lokal tersebut, lubuk larangan termasuk sistem pengelolaannya sudah menjadi salah satu kegiatan pemerintah sampai di tingkat nasional.Penguatan kearifan lokal dengan kajian ilmiah dapat menjadikan kearifan lokal sebagai bagian dari sistem pengelolaan perikanan yang efektif dan efisien berbasis masyarakat.Kajian ilmiah terhadap kearifan lokal yang berhubungan dengan pengelolaan perikanan dapat didekati dengan etnobiologi (analisis emik dan analisis etik).Selanjutnya, kearifan lokal dapat diperkuat secara hukum dan perundang-undangan yang berlaku secara nasional.</p><p><em>Local wisdom is a cultural value that can not be separated from the life of the Indonesian people and its existence is recognized by state law. Local wisdoms found in Sumatra related to inland fisheries management are lebak lebung (South Sumatra), lubuk larangan (Jambi and West Sumatra), rantau larangan (Riau), ma'uwo (Riau), and upacara semah terubuk (Riau).Lubuk larangan including its management system has become one of the government's activities to the national level. Strengthening local wisdom with scientific studies can make it is as part of effective and efficient community-based fisheries management system. Scientific studies on local wisdom related to fisheries management could be analyzed by applying ethnobiology approach (emic and etic analysis).</em></p>