An Economic Study for Fish Farming in Sohag Governorate (The case of floating cages) | ||||
| Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences | ||||
| Article 7, Volume 45, Issue 4, November 2014, Page 114-125 PDF (328.09 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ajas.2014.3505 | ||||
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| Abstract | ||||
| Sohag Governorate dependent on production of fish by the civil farms and farm floating cages system, as well as the natural breeding of fish in the Nile River and where are fishing by fishing boats and travel about 2142 boats of the third degree, or fishing methods unfair which may cause a decrease fish production consequently high price. It is worth mentioning that the islands to began to spread to the edges and the middle of the Nile River are affecting negatively on natural produced quantities of fish to governorate, so the expansion of fish farming creates fish farms in a way cages floating in the region has become necessary to make up the shortfall caused by low quantities of natural production fish, and is aimed at shedding light on the current status of the fish production in Sohag province, and to identify the most important factors affecting the fish farms in the governorate the production and evaluation of the productive efficiency of fish farms in order to reach production optimization and make financial assessment of fish farms in a way floating cages in the governorate, and to identify the most important production and marketing problems faced farms It is the results of the feasibility study, the production of Bolty fish in cages at a price discount of 10% and 14%, where the ratio of benefits to costs amounted to about 1.07 to 1.03 at a price discount, respectively. While the total net present value of the benefits in each about 14773 and 9528 pounds, respectively, and total internal rate of return about 37.49% each, respectively, while the payback period amounted to about 2.66 years. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Sohag Governorate; fish farming; Economic study | ||||
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