REPORTS - BOBP/REP/12
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REPORTS - BOBP/REP/12 Report of the Training Course for Fish Marketing Personnel of Andhra Pradesh.
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Executing Agency: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Funding Agency :SWEDISH INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Madras, India, September 1981 |
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This document is the report of a two-week training course held in November 1980 for some 20 officials of Andhra Pradesh State in South India who are concerned with fish marketing. The course was organised jointly by the Directorate of Fisheries, Andhra Pradesh and the Bay of Bengal Programme in cooperation with the Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad. The report outlines the rationale, preparation and conduct of the course. It discusses the structure of the business game, the principal method of instruction, and details the “marketing strategies” for the game adopted by each group of participants. It analysesthe work submitted by them, the knowledge they gained from the course and their reactions to various course components. The report may be found useful by small-scale fisheries planners, by people engaged in fish marketing and by organisers of similar training courses and workshops. The training course was an activity of the Bay of Bengal Programme for the Development of Small-Scale Fisheries, referred to in brief as the Bay of Bengal Programme. Its main aims are to develop and demonstrate technologies and methodologies to improve the conditions of small-scale fisherfolk and the supply of fish from the small-scale sector in five countries bordering the Bay of Bengal - Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The Programme is executed by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations and funded by the Swedish International Development Authority. |
1. INTRODUCTION
2. COURSE CURRICULUM
3. ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS
3.1 AGE AND DUTY STATION
3.2 EDUCATION
3.3 JOB TITLES, PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES AND PRIOR OPINIONS
4. CONDUCT OF TRAINING COURSE
4.1 INFORMATION ABOUT FISHERIES AND FISH MARKETING IN ANDHRA PRADESH
4.2 INFORMATION CONCERNING MARKETING AND ACCOUNTING - BEFORE AND DURING BUSINESS GAME
4.3 SIMULATING PRACTICE : THE BUSINESS GAME
4.4 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INPUTS ABOUT FISH HANDLING
4.5 APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED DURING BUSINESS GAME TO LOCAL CONDITIONS
5. PARTICIPANTS’ APPRECIATION OF THE TRAINING COURSE
5.1 USEFULNESS OF TOPICS
5.2 ADEQUACY OF TEACHING METHODS
5.3 ORGANISATIONAL FRAMEWORK
6. CONCLUSIONS
APPENDICES:
1. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
2. PROGRAMME
3. LEARNING MATERIALS USED IN THE COURSE
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