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A World Bank-funded loan project has been developed in the Indian state of Jharkhand to enhance and diversify household incomes for targeted beneficiaries through fish culture. Jharkhand is one of India’s poorest states. Its poverty rate is the highest in the country after Chhattisgarh’s, with 37 per cent of the population below the poverty line. The average rate of decline in poverty in Jharkhand up to 2012 was 0.9 per cent per year—much slower than in the rest of India’s rate of 4.8 per cent per year. A female literacy rate of 55 per cent is much lower than the rest of India’s rate of 65 per cent. Malnourishment is a serious problem; 47 per cent of the children under five years are stunted, about 42 per cent are underweight and 16 per cent are wasted. More than 70 per cent of women and about 67 per cent of adolescent girls in the state are anaemic. Most households lack basic access to water and sanitation.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Bihari, Bipin, Shweta, Smita
Format:	article biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	Aquaculture, Fisheries, Sociology, small scale fisheries, Samudra Report, ICSF, fishing communities, coastal communities, livelihood, fisheries and aquaculture, India, Jharkhand, aquaculure delopment, World Bank, fish culture,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/1834/41219
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