Financial Awareness and Challenges in Enhancing Earnings Among Traditional Fishermen in Purackad Village of Alapuzha

Abstract

Fishermen in the villages of Kerala are poorly educated and they are exposed to many struggles in earning their livelihoods, This paper explores the financial awareness of fishermen and the challenges faced by the fishermen in improving the earnings.  Authors explore whether there is a relationship between the financial awareness and the value added processing activities done by the fishermen communities.