ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (ICAR-CIBA) participated in the Fisheries Summer Meet-2024 organised by the Department of Fisheries, Government of India on 12th July 2024 at Ida Scutter Auditorium, Madurai, Tamil Nadu. The exhibition stall of ICAR -CIBA displayed the technologies developed by the institute.
It consisted of candidate species of shellfish and finfishes suitable for Brackishwater aquaculture, new age shrimp farming technology, nutritional solutions for fish, shrimp, larval and growth systems, genetic improvement program for Penaeus indicus, shrimp crop insurance, developing value added products from fish wastes, disease diagnostics, healthcare products to control Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei (EHP) and precision aquaculture technologies. In addition to that live specimen of fishes, shrimp, and crabs were also displayed for creating awareness to the farmers and other stakeholders, arrangements were also made for TV display of CIBA technologies and pamphlets in multilingual languages. Shri.Rajiv Ranjan, the Honourable Union Minister of Fisheries Animal Husbandry and Dairying (MóFAH&D), Govt. of India, Prof.S.P.Singh Baghel and Shri.George Kurian, Honourable Union Ministers of State Fisheries Animal Husbandry and Dairying visited the stall and Dr. JK Jena, Deputy Director General (Fisheries), ICAR explained the activities taken up by ICAR-CIBA. Fish farmers, fisher folk, Officials from Development Departments including from other states visited the stall and interacted with the CIBA team.
Dr.T Ravisankar, Dr. D. Deboral Vimala, Dr.R.Jayakumar, Dr.P Ezhil Praveena, Principal Scientists and Dr.S.Sivagananam, Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and Shri.C.Saravanan Technical Officer coordinated the event.
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