ARE YOU A COMMERCIAL FARMER OR INTEND TO BE
ONE?
In order to classify oneself as a
commercial fish farmer or not, one must undertake to do the following.
Box 1: Characteristics
of a Commercial Fish Farmer
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Yes
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No
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Plans production around targeted
markets.
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Production without any strategy.
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Employs technically-trained and
knowledgeable personnel.
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Source of employment for friends
and relatives
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Management approach is performance
oriented – yields, productivity (efficiency of production) and profits.
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Management approach simply to keep
fish, not bothered about yields or profit as long as units are full of fish.
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Harvests and sells fish based upon
a plan.
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Irregular harvesting and sale of
fish.
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Produces for profit.
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Not bothered about returns or
length of production cycle.
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Costs all inputs inclusive of own
labor.
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Does not cost all inputs especially
labor.
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Keeps and analyses written records
of production, costs and returns.
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Does not keep any written records.
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Information from farm’s records
from the basis for making management decisions. The farm’s records are the
key management tool.
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Information from records, even if
kept, are not analyzed nor used to improve efficiency of the farm’s
management and operations.
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