11th January 2024, Kakdwip
Shri. Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying visited the Kakdwip research centre of ICAR-Central Institute for Brakishwater Aquaculture, today.
The Minister highlighted the importance of scaling up of the technologies developed by the centre and recommended the need for popularization of the technological advancements made in the sector among the farming community. He urged for the development of low-cost feeds for supporting the brackishwater aquaculture.
Shri. Rupala visited the Fish & Shellfish Hatchery, Feed Mill, Fish waste Processing Unit and took a review of the activities being carried out at the centre. Technological innovations made in low-cost feed production and various aquaculture feed developed at the centre, recycling of the fish waste and development of value-added product CIBA-Plankton plus & CIBA-Horti Plus were showcased during the visit.
Ms. Neetu Kumari Prasad, Joint Secretary (Marine Fisheries) and Dr. L. Narasimha Murthy, Chief Executive I/c & Senior Executive Director, National Fisheries Development Board, accompanied the Union Minister during the visit.
Dr. Debasis De, Head, Kakdwip Research Centre, briefed about the research centre, infrastructure facilities, ongoing research activities and technologies developed etc. He also spoke about the activities taken up by the centre for species diversification and ongoing breeding and captive maturation of regionally important candidate fish and shellfish species like Hilsa (Tenualosa Ilisha) Bengal bream (Acanthopagrus longispinnis), Knight goby (Stigmatogobius sadanundio), Tade mullet (Liza tade), Speckled shrimp (Penaeus monoceros), Orange mud crab (Scylla olivacea) etc.
(Source: ICAR-Central Institute for Brakishwater Aquaculture, Chennai)
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