Our Impact
Fresh Water Fish Farmer
Women in Fishery Based Livelihood
Fish Seed Rearing Micro Enterprise
Low Cost Fish Cages
FPO in Fishery Based Livelihood Intervention
Centre for Aquatic Livelihood Jaljeevika is addressing the issue of small-scale fish farmers, building community resilience and capacity to enhance livelihood opportunities using existing water bodies, technology and leveraging institutions. We work through an ecosystem development model to build skill, develop institutional capacity and empower smallholders to interact with the market using the technology platform. We are facilitating the process in collaboration with various stakeholders to establish a knowledge forum to establish Blue Economy.
We aim to increase the potential productivity of water bodies, reduce distress rural migration and create layers of livelihood opportunities across the value chain. Aquaculture provides an inexpensive source of nutrition, alleviate poverty and ensure livelihood opportunities for millions of people.
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Strategic Components
Institution Development
Technology sourcing
Business Service Providers
IT-based services
Research and advocacy partnership
Our Impact Model
Our Mission
1 Million hectare water area
1 Million fish farmer
100000+ Jobs
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25,000 Trained To Fish ‘Inland’: How One Jharkhand Man Created a Food Revolution
“Through Jaljeevika, we have taught fish farmers how to make fishing tools and equipment with minimum investments, promoted women to take up fish farming, taught them how to produce fish seed, while also helping fisherfolk to become micro-entrepreneurs through value addition and processing of fish. For example, a lot of them have learnt how to process dry fish which they could also be selling,” shares the 45-year-old.
They transform the lives of the marginalised
Centre for Aquatic Livelihood — Jaljeevika: CAL — Jaljeevika, a Pune-based NGO, offers alternative business avenues to agriculture-dependent small and marginal farmers. It encourages them to leverage opportunities in inland fisheries by providing access to credit and markets and by fostering entrepreneurship. CAL — Jaljeevika has transformed the lives of over 10,000 farmers in Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.
Meet the social entrepreneur who is revolutionising the Indian inland fisheries industry
To date, Jaljeevika has been creating employment for over 5000 people across India every year and, in the process, economically empowered many vulnerable farming communities. In 2019 alone, its impact has reached 18,000 new farmers, who now see inland fishing as a viable means of economic prosperity. On average, individual households are generating an annual income of Rs 45,000, more than they would have otherwise. For farmers who are applying the best practices, the income exceeds Rs 1 lakh annually.
