/ Background The Feed the Future Bangladesh Aquaculture Activity (BAA) is a five-year project of USAID working to improve nutrition through growth in the aquaculture sector. BAA works in 21 districts of southwestern Bangladesh and 2 districts in the southeast.
Feed the Future Bangladesh Aquaculture Activity (BAA) is a five-year project of USAID to intend to improve nutrition through growth in the aquaculture sector growth. BAA works in 21 districts of southwestern Bangladesh and two districts in the southeast.
Fish feed is the largest cost item for most pond-based fish farms at 70-80 percent of variable costs. This means there is a large supply chain which brings feed from the producers to the farms. This supply chain is very inefficient, and this inefficiency results in both higher prices to the farmers and lower profits for the suppliers.
Operational management of the chain is a major challenge for feed companies largely due to the lack of ‘Information Integration’ as sales and distribution information is not linked. That is, inventory levels and sales reports are not brought together in a way that makes re-ordering feed efficient.
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The Feed the Future Bangladesh Aquaculture Activity (BAA) is a five-year project of USAID implemented by WorldFish working to improve nutrition through growth in the aquaculture sector. BAA works in twenty one districts of southwestern Bangladesh and two districts in the southeast.
Bandarban is a hilly district and much of this district is hard to reach. Aquaculture in Bandarban is small scale in about 2,500 ponds and creeks scattered across the district, but most of these ponds & creeks are not fully utilized for growing fish. As a result, household nutrition is not as good as it could be.