29th June, 2022, Cuttack
The Krishi Vigan Kendra, ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha organized the Awareness-cum-Demonstration Programme on “Inclusion of Fish in Daily Diet for Health Promotion” here today.
The Programme was organized as a part of the collaborative programme of the ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin, Kerala and ICAR-NRRI, Cuttack under WFC-ICAR W3 (CGIAR) Project.
Dr. Padmini Swain, Director, ICAR-NRRI, Cuttack emphasized that small fish being the excellent source of many essential minerals like iodine, selenium, zinc, iron, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, etc., Vitamins like A, D & B and Poly Unsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFA) helps in the multiple functions in human body, including growth, brain function, nervous system in the foetus and infants. She urged the School Students, Adolescent Girls, Pregnant and Lactating Women to adopt the practices of consuming fish in their daily diets.
Dr. A.K. Mohanty, Head (Division of Extension, Information and Statistics), ICAR-CIFT, Cochin, Kerala highlighted the dominance of Indian fisheries in the global scenario as the 3rd largest in the total fish production and 2nd in the aquaculture production with an average annual growth rate of 14.8%.
Earlier, delivering the welcome address, Dr. G.A.K. Kumar, Head (Social Science Division), ICAR-NRRI, Cuttack, Odisha stressed on the market linkage establishment and policy implication to make the practice of dry fish inclusion for human nutrition more sustainable.
The programme was aimed at sensitizing the participants about the importance of fish for alleviating the malnutrition in the society.
More than 100 participants participated in the programme.
(Source: ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha)
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