Raipur Fish Hatchery and Training Centre is a fish hatchery in

Raipur Upazila Raipur ( bn, রায়পুর) is an upazila in Lakshmipur District, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh. It is surrounded by the upazilas of Faridganj, Ramganj, Lakshmipur Sadar, Mehendiganj and Haimchar, and on the west by the Megna Riv ...

, Lakshmipur District,

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. One of the six main fish hatcheries in Bangladesh, it was the largest hatchery in the district during the Noakhali Rural Development Project implemented during 1978-1992 by

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, a

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development agency. One of the three Principal Scientific Officers (PSO) of the Department of Fisheries of Bangladesh governments is assigned to Raipur Hatchery. It also is one of three training centers directly governed by the Director General of the Department, along with Fisheries Training Institute ( Chandpur) and Fisheries Training Academy in (

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). The Raipur Upazila has 8 fish farms, 14 dairy farms, 72 poultry farms and this one hatchery. As of 2004, the government-owned hatchery was able to produce 504

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s of hatchlings a year, which mostly consisted of

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species like ''

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'' (katla), '' Labeo rohita'' (rui), '' Cirrhinus cirrhosus'' (mrigal), '' Labeo calbasu'' (kalabaus), ''

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'' (magur), and '' Channa striata'' (shingi).

History

In 1979, mirror carps (''

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var. specularis'') from Nepal were first introduced to Bangladesh for the World Bank financed Raipur Fish Hatchery. In 1982, the Raipur Hatchery started

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in Bangladesh. In 2001, the Greater Noakhali Aquaculture Extension Component (GNAEC), a sub-program of DANIDA's Agricultural Sector Program in Bangladesh, shifted from the hatchery development strategy of hatched at the Raipur Hatchery. GNAEC abandoned "backyard hatcheries" and "village type prawn hatcheries" models for large-scale private sector developmentShifts in component focus
, GNAEC, 2005, Retrieved: 2008-07-30

References

External links

Raipur Fishery Map
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