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Fishermen co-operatives play a vital role in providing services which are uniform in nature. But, the perception of fishermen regarding co-operative services is generally subjective. This study assessed the fishermens’ perception at Njarakkal, Ernakulam District, Kerala, regarding the services of co-operatives. It was found from the results that 90...
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... With these being said, the benefits of the fisheries value chain often entail increments of producer share, the minimum cost of processing, increase in efficiency and effectiveness of the actors, boost in business and employment, elimination of unwanted processes such as nonvaluable addition, quality assurance in product development to ensure customer satisfaction (Burch & Maes, 2017;Jeyanthi et al., 2017). Overall, the importance of the fisheries value chain is that it highlights enterprise development, enhances the quality of a product and qualitative measures of value addition, promotes coordinated linkages among producers and improves the competitive position of individual enterprises in the marketplace (Awel et al. 2018). ...
This paper investigated the roles and functions performed by rural households along the inland fishery value chain in the Vhembe District Municipality in Limpopo Province. Primary data was collected from 151 fishing and non-fishing households. Descriptive statistics was employed to profile the socio-economic characteristics of households. Pearson Chi-square and Pearson Product Moment Correlation were used to examine the relationship between socio-economic characteristics (gender and age) of households and their function along the inland fisheries value chain. The study found a positive relationship between gender and function of consumer at 1% probability level. In addition, the correlation between age and function of input supplier and consumer were 0.293 and 0.080 respectively. Consequently, the results show that households play the role of input supplier, fishers, processor, trader and consumer. Therefore, the study calls on the government to create an enabling environment that will encourage households to partake in the value chain of inland fisheries to promote rural livelihoods and to encourage women to participate in inland fisheries.
... The findings of the study revealed that the majority of the respondents were using financial assistance for the purchase of net and other instruments; societies provide updated market information to the people and help them to market the excess catch. Jeyanthi et al. (2017) have conducted a study on "Fishers' perception of co-operative services and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for improved fish marketing services at Namakkal, Ernakulum" with 75 respondents. Binary logistic regression analysis was the tool used for the study. ...
Fishing is a traditional activity in Kerala because from time immemorial fishermen community involved in both marine and inland fishing for their livelihood. To develop the fishermen community and to solve their socio-economic problems, fisheries co-operatives were established. MATSYAFED is acting as the apex level institution for all the primary level fishermen co-operatives in Kerala. A humble attempt was made to conduct a study on “Financial Performance Evaluation of Kerala State Co-operative Federation for Fisheries Development Limited (MATSYAFED)” to evaluate its financial performance. The tools used for the analysis of the data were ratio analysis and compound annual growth rate (CAGR). From the financial performance analysis, it is evident that they have a strong short-term liquidity position and have a good inventory turnover ratio. The debt-equity ratio is higher than the rule of thumb (1:1). i.e., debt is higher than equity. The ratio analysis reveals that the MATSYAFED is efficiently managing its funds to various schemes and programs for the development of the fishermen community. As a whole, compared with many other apex cooperative federations, MATSYAFED is performing better, thanks to the management team.
