Food is our basic need and agriculture is a unique occupation which supplies food and provides raw materials for other sectors to survive. Elders have rightly said that if farmers’ hands are slackened even the ascetic state will fail. Healthy food is important and it is imperative to connect the people who produce the…
The World Fisheries Day was established to draw attention to the importance of fisheries and fish farming and to focus to the issues such as overfishing, habitat destruction and other serious threats to the sustainability of global marine and freshwater resources. CIBA celebrated this day on 21st November 2017 at Keelarkollai village in Koovathur…
Scientists from ICAR-Central Institute of brackishwater aquaculture (CIBA), a premier research institute in the country, are exploring ways to increase farmer’s profitability by promoting species diversification. Though exotic shrimp vannamei has totally captured coastal aquaculture diaspora contributing almost 4.06 lakh tonnes with Rs 26,000 crores, this has its demerit as single species and imported broodstock…
Farming in land or water is the noble occupation and farmers consider it as their way of life. As on day, India is self-sufficient and self-reliant in food production and also exporting food grains. However, due to less profitability and an attitudinal bias towards city based jobs participation of the younger generation in farming…
South Western Punjab in India possesses abundant resources of inland saline groundwater, similar to brackish water with salinities ranging from 3 to 15 ppt. The districts of Bathinda, Muktsar, Fazilka and parts of Mansa have regions with underlying low saline groundwater; hence agricultural productivity in this region is low as compared to the rest of…