Vol. 12, Issue 1 (2023)

Author(s):
Sunil Kumar Singh and Rashmi Tanwar

Abstract:
Fishes are the cheaper source of nutrition for poor people in the country. Among all the fish species; Rohu (Labeo rohita), Cat and Pomfret (Brama brama) fishes are the major fish species which are consumed by majority of fish consuming population in India. Thus, in the present study effort had been made to obtain insight into the rate of growth (compound monthly growth rate) and trends in price variations in fish prices of above mentioned three important fish species in India. The exponantial function had been applied to study the growth in fish prices and a methodology suggested by the Bandyopadhyay had been used to study the variation in prices over time. The study revealed that the rate of growth in prices of Rohu, Cat and Pomfret fishes were positive and less than one% per month for all three types of fishes except Khozhikode and Udaipur cat fish markets in which cat fish prices were found increasing at the rate of more than one% per month. The variability in prices were found decreasing in all markets of these three types of fishes except Delhi, Dhanbad and Lucknow rohu fish markets, Panaji and Agartala cat fish markets and Panaji and Lucknow pomfret fish markets in which the price variability was increasing over the time.