Feed the Future Bangladesh Aquaculture and Nutrition Activity

Market Systems Grant Inquiry

Title of the business Applying for a Micro-franchise Model for Women in Aquaculture
proposal
Name of the company/ Chemotex
organization
Address House#09, Road#02, chandalvog, Nishatnagar,Turag,Dhaka-1230.
Contact information Name Md.Abu shoyeb sarder
Designation CEO
Contact number +8801707030691
E-mail Chemotex.etp@gmail.com
Proposedproject dates From:       To:      
Estimated Budget (USD) $3,50,000.00/Year
Amount Requested $200000.00
(USD)
Project Summary
Aquaculture remains a growing, vibrant and important food production sector. Chemicals and drugs are widely
used to increase aquaculture production in Bangladesh. the aqua drugs and antibiotics used in aquaculture
activities in north Chittagong of Bangladesh,Major aquaculture species in experimental areas were
combination of carps, tilapia and catfish (57%). Approximately 80 stakeholders were used to collect data from
the selected upazilla of Chittagong and Cox’s bazar district. Six categories of aqua drugs and chemicals were
used by fish farmers .

Goals of the Project / Problem to be Solved

Women labour is considered as unpaid in Bangladesh though they are involved with many income generating
activities. Present study was conducted at the six districts i.e. Narail, Khulna, Bagerhat, Mymensing, Chittagong
and Barisal of Bangladesh and aimed to assess the women role in aquaculture along with their socio-economic
status and access to the resources.

Source of Profitability / Sustainability of the Activities

Women in fish culture emerged from different viewpoints. The reasons of the turning towards the fish farming
trend has been for formalized and framed in through conducting focus group discussion at different sites and
the resulted reasons are grouped for the questionnaire survey. Majority of peoples has been involved in fish
farming in the tendency of high economic gains,

About Your Organization

We “Chemotex” are engaged in Import & Trading high-quality chemicals for Fish & Shrimp farming, Aqua Feed
supplement, poultry water Sanitizer etc. We are a Sole Proprietorship company that is established in the year
2008. We are connected with the renowned vendors of the market who assist us to provide a qualitative range
of products as per the global set standards.

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