On 17th December 2021, Dr. Joy Krushna Jena, Deputy Director General (Fisheries), ICAR, visited ICAR-CIBA’s emerging farming center at Kovalam, Chennai and reviewed the research activities and administrative matters of the institute through discussions with all the staffs and students. Dr. K.P. Jithendran, Director, CIBA welcomed DDG Fisheries and briefed the research achievements in the recent past, especially during the COVID lockdown. Dr. J.K. Jena, in his opening remarks, appreciated the research activities of CIBA and advised that appropriate strategies need to be adopted for scaling up of brackishwater finfish culture. During his visit to the newly developing farming center in Kovalam, he critically looked into the land use plan and proposed visionary approaches for developing KES into CIBA’s visionary farming center. He stressed that the newly acquired 64.5 acres of land need to be effectively utilized on a mission mode approach. He distributed the seeds of Asian seabass, mud crab and Indian white shrimp to identified beneficiaries under SCSP. He also inaugurated the sale of brackishwater ornamental fishes produced by women farmers to the aquarium entrepreneurs. This field visit cum seed distribution event, DDG fisheries, was accompanied by Dr. A. Gopalakrishnan, Director, CMFRI, and the Director CIBA, and other Senior officers.
