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A centre for promoting and
capacitating different partnerships to
experiment, innovate and establish processes
that strengthen the natural resources
management practices and related livelihoods |
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 Fishermen cooperatives formed by the
fisheries department have the right to fish culture in the
irrigation tanks. But due to several institutional problems like
domination of non-stakeholder interests, lack of transparency
etc., the cooperatives lost control over fish production. Many of
the tanks are now under the control of external contractors. An
initiative to break this nexus and revive the community control
over the fisheries was initiated in 2004 in Togapur village in
Kosgi Mandal.
Village Service Society, a NGO based in the mandal and Kosgi MMS
are partnering in this effort. Smaller sub-groups within the
cooperatives were facilitated and norms established for
functioning. The cooperative members contributed Rs.200 per
household to generate Rs.40,000 and a local area bank of BASIX
came forward to lend Rs.1.75 lakhs. Fisheries department provided
the technical support. Both fish and scampi (prawn) culture were
initiated.
Efforts are made to link the fish vendors (part of the MMS) to the
cooperative so that livelihoods are generated and fish is locally
consumed. The negotiations however did not succeed. 29 tanks in
three other mandals were identified and initial work on the
institutional aspects is progressing.
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