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ABSTRACT
Effect of training was studied on 40 trainees participated in 3 days training programme on "Ornamental Fish Breeding&Culture" organized at Cooch Behar Krishi Vigyan Kendra of Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Cooch Behar. Knowledge and attitude of fish farmers self-help group were studied pre & post training towards ornamental fish breeding and culture significant gain in knowledge and increase in favourable attitude were noticed among the participants after training. All trainees had favourable and innovative attitude towards ornamental fish breeding and culture. The overall gain in knowledge was high in respect to breeding and larval rearing of live bearing ornamental fishes, commercial farming of live bearers and its management practice, feeding for breeding and maintenance of ornamental fishes, water quality in ornamental farming, disease management in ornamental fish farming.
Keywords: Ornamental fish breeding, Training, Self Help Group.
INTRODUCTION
Training is a powerful tool to catalyze human resources to improvise professional empowerment. The significance of training for development and mobilization of human resource energies has been recognized long back, but finding out ways and means for improving effectiveness of training received attention only recently. It is a sequential process and steps of social development through which efficacy and stability of society can be improved considering various concomitant social problems (Goswami et al., 2004). This is the most effective way of imparting knowledge and skills to trainees regarding new fish culture technology. The development in fishery sector depends on generation of innovations by researchers, diffusion by extension workers and adoption by fish farmers (Vasantakumar, 1988). Ornamental fish has marked as a resource with good economic potential in recent years. Considering the increasing domestic demand and ready export market the ornamental fish breeding and culture offers enormous scope for its adoption both at small scale and as commercial enterprise. Though India possess congenial environmental conditions for ornamental farming, this sector has not received yet due attention as it ought to be (Chand et al., 2003). There is a strong need to culture and commercialize ornamental fish farming. Ornamental fish culture should move from being just a mere culture, to a dynamic entity i.e. ornamental fish culture business. To conduct farm as an enterprise or business, farmers need to become entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurial qualities in fish...