Budget has already been released for this. [break]
Senior crop development officer of District Agriculture Development Office of Parsa Bijaya Kumar Srivastav said Rs. 1.658 has been apportioned to provide subsidy to farmers.
New ponds will be constructed in 15 hectare area in the district this year as part of the program, he said. "Special priority has been given to implement the campaign-oriented program in pocket areas of fish production."
Farmers will be trained to arm them with know-how of fishery and the government will provide subsidy of Rs. 100,000 to each 15 hectares for fish farming.
"In response to our call for application, a total of 56 farmers have applied for the construction of new ponds in 54 bighas of land," said technical assistant of fishery program Dayaram Harijan.
"But subsidy will be provided to farmers to build new ponds only in 22 bigha of land this year," he said.
Program director of Fishery Development Directorate Ramananda Mishra said that Nepali consumers have to rely on imported fish as the production at home is below than the demand. Thus, the government brought in this campaign-oriented fishery program, he said.
As of now it is estimated that 833 ponds have been constructed by 716 farmers in 230 hectares for fishery in the district.
According to the agriculture office, Parsa produces around 7,000 metric tonnes of fish in a year.
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