“I used to get a salary of Rs 50,000 ($597) and was staying there for nearly seven years. I was completely dejected, as I was jobless. I was sitting idle looking for work and came in contact with local fisheries officials who encouraged me to start fish farming. I started farming 3 acres in 2020 and stocked 5,000 juvenile Indian major carp: particularly rohu, mrigal and catla,” he recalls.