Market Actors and Market Channels Development for nutrition sensitive aquaculture in Bandarban

Abstract

Bandarban is a hilly district and rural villages of this district is hard to reach. Market challenges in Bandarban are include limited capacity of small fish producers; lack of access to quality inputs especially good quality seeds, feeds and other aqua-inputs at reasonable price at the locality in time; lack or poor access to private services especially on fish harvesting and transportation services which are expensive and out of farmers capacity. To address the issues of aquaculture in Bandarban, GRAUS designed and implemented a project named “Market actor and market channels development for nutrition sensitive aquaculture in Bandarban” from June 2021 to August 2023, with the technical support of WorldFish and financial support USAID.