ICAR-CIBA, Chennai conducted ‘Agricultural Education Day’ on 3rd December 2016 to create awareness to the school children on the importance of agriculture and vitality of agriculture education. School students, a total of 66 along with 5 teachers from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Island grounds, Chennai; Kendriya Vidyalaya, CLRI, Adyar, Chennai and GTA Vidhya Mandir, Neelankarai, Chennai…
Hilsa, (Tenualosa ilisha), the popular migratory fish along with the Bengal river-sea ecosystems, is one of the delicacies of Bengalis, both at West Bengal and Bangladesh, associated with culture and emotions of Bengalis of the Indian subcontinent and even overseas. In spite of huge demand, production of Hilsa is limited to around 72000 metric…
The ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (ICAR-CIBA) observed the ‘World Fisheries Day’ at Kottaikadu village in Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu. During this occasion, the fisher youths of Idaikazhinadu panchayat were mobilised to create awareness on the importance of conservation of aquatic resources which provides a livelihood to millions of people and motivated them to…
A national seminar on “Prophylaxis in Aquaculture’’ was organised under Consortium Research Platform on vaccines and diagnostics on 16th November 2016 at ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (ICAR-CIBA), Chennai. Consortium partners from national institutes viz., IVRI, CMFRI, NBFGR, CIFA and CIFE participated in the seminar and made presentations on the progress of their work on…
The first phase of capacity building and harmonisation of PCR diagnosis of aquatic animal diseases, the National training programme on “Molecular diagnosis of shrimp diseases” was held during 3rd – 5th October 2016 at ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (ICAR-CIBA), Chennai. The programme with hands on training was organised in collaboration with the Coastal…