Mobilization of Self Help Groups, setting up of Mahila Rural Cooperative
banks, Women cell and collaboration and networking with
NGOs etc are to be worked out by using the strategy developed in
the case studies as a practical manual. Promoting “men and women
partnership firms” instead of exclusively women-oriented enterprises
is another practical strategy. It is seen that husband-wife enterprises
with one or two helpers in fish processing/marketing in fishery related
activities and other fishery related activity yields better prospects.
Integration of the gender perspective in aquaculture research and
technology development is an essential requisite because the gender
mainstreaming approach advances gender equality and equity in
the society. Similarly it is quite necessary for integrating gender
perspective in aquaculture extension also because women are the
important stakeholders of our aquaculture development process and
our Extension system hardly targets the women folk for technological
empowerment
