Reports on Capacity Building

3 July 2018, Bhubaneswar

The ICAR - Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture today organised an interface meet on “Aquaone Centre (AOC)”. Aquaone centre, a new initiative of National Fisheries Development Board(NFDB), Hyderabad, is an ICT enabled aquaculture support service and would help wider dissemination of newer aquaculture technology and innovation to the fish farming community. It will function in complementarity with exiting public fisheries extension system, informs Dr.Manas Kumar Sinha, Senior executive, NFDB.

A 6-day training programme on “Manufacture of Jute Handicrafts” under Agri-Business Incubation (ABI) project, ICAR-NIRJAFT, Kolkata commenced on 02^nd July, 2018 at KVK, Jagatsinghpur, Odisha.

29^th June, 2018, Sadalpur, Haryana

ICAR-AICRP (STCR) organised a Farmer-Scientist Interaction Meet in collaboration with AICRP (DA) with an objective to imbibe scientific knowledge among the farmers during the kharif season regarding the importance of soil test based nutrient management, use of soil health card as well as enhancing the preparedness for agricultural Contingencies at Sadalpur village, Hisar district, Haryana. 

A two-day trainingprogramme (29-30 June, 2018) on Public Finance Management System (PFMS) in collaboration with Assistant Controller General of Accounts, SMPU, Rajasthan.forKrishiVigyanKendras of Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi was inaugurated at MPUAT, Udaipur on 29th June 2018.

27^th June 2018, Kiphire, Nagaland

ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Bhubaneswar, Odisha under its Tribal Sub-Plan Programme and in collaboration with State Fisheries Department, Nagaland conducted the Tribal Farmers’ Meet and Awareness Programme on Scientific Aquaculture at Kiphire, Nagaland today. Kiphire is the Tribal Aspirational District of Nagaland State declared by Government of India.

Workshop on "Improved Carp polyculture in village ponds” was organized by Anand Regional Research Centre of ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Bhubneshwar at Rajpipla, Narmada District, Gujarat on 24th  May, 2018 as a part of Tribal Sub Plan Programme of ICAR-CIFA, Bhubaneswar. Narmada has been identified as the tribal dominated Aspirational District by the Government of India.

One-day National seminar in Hindi on “Advanced Processing Technology of Natural Fibres and their Value Added Products”was organized by ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology, Mumbai in collaboration with Indian Fibre Society (IFS) on 2nd June, 2018.

One-day National seminar in Hindi on “Advanced Processing Technology of Natural Fibres and their Value Added Products”was organized by ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology, Mumbai in collaboration with Indian Fibre Society (IFS) on 2nd June, 2018.

Indian export earnings from fishery products reached an all-time high of ₹.37,871 crores (5.7billion USD) during 2016-17, keeping the growth trajectory, meeting the stringent food safety standards putforwardby the importing countries and keeping with theSanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) ecosystems. Farmed shrimp is the major commodity of our export basket contributing 70% of the total export in terms value worth ₹.25,000 crores.

A training programme on Public Finance Management System has been organized at ICAR-ATARI, Jodhpur on 31st May, 2018.