Prasanna Swain of Kolipokhari village in Balipatana area, nearly 36 km far from Bhubaneswar becomes an example for his fishery and poultry farming. He says that his uncle was working in agriculture department, who helped him a lot to learn and understand about this type of farming. In 2018, he started this farming with his uncle and his 3 brothers. Farming videos in social media, basically the YouTube videos helped them too much. As per him, they have 3ponds (each of 1 acre) to use for fishery farming. The investment for each pond is about 10-12 thousand and the net income from one pond is nearly 35-40 thousand. During rainy season, they are selling the fingerlings and keeping some fingerlings for further harvesting to sell the big size fishes. They already have contacts with the fish and fingerling traders, who are coming to their site to procure these. As per Prasanna, if they can be able to sell these big fishes, then they may get 10% more profit than selling to the traders, but they are not focusing more for marketing rather to yield more and more. Apart from fishery, they had invested nearly 25 lakhs for setting up the infrastructure of 10,000 sq.ft areas for poultry farming by keeping more than 4000 chicks.
Apart from the above investment, in each batch of 60days, their expense is nearly Rs.10,000 and the profit in each batch is 40-50 thousand. They incorporated with some companies on contractual basis, who have the responsibility to provide the chicks, medicine, food on time and procuring after growing of the chicks. Prasanna and team have the responsibility of only taking care of the poultry. As per Prasanna, they never took any loan before Fani cyclone. Due to Fani, they faced huge loss and finally took loan, but till now they didn’t get the benefit of loan subsidy from the Government. They didn’t take any proper specific training on this fishery or poultry farming, still they are getting very good income from it. Still they are getting annual income of 4.5-5.5 lakhs. They completely closed this business for 3months during initial phase of corona pandemic.
As per prasanna, joblessness is become an opportunity for him to start something new and his self confidence, hard work and complete dedication become the key factor of his tremendous success.
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