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Navsari Gujarat Research Centre (NGRC) of ICAR-CIBA conducted a 4-day training program on “Brackishwater finfish and shellfish farming practices for livelihood generation for scheduled caste and scheduled tribe communities of Gujarat” from 4th to 7th March, 2024 at its centre, Navsari, Gujarat. A total of 60 SC and ST beneficiaries from Hansapore, Eroo, Singod and…

Bengal yellowfin seabream (Acanthopagrus datnia) belongs to the sparidae family, majorly distributed in the Bay of Bengal region and has high demand and market price (₹ 300 to 400/ kg) due to its white tender meat. Quality seed availability hindered the aquaculture expansion and till now it is only grown traditionally in Bheries of West…

Shrimp Crop Insurance is a planned adaption measure to facilitate the shrimp farmer to manage the production risk. The shrimp crop insurance programme which was in operation during the initial phase of scientific shrimp farming (1990-1995), subsequently withdrawn due to heavy production losses. Nevertheless, it is getting revived thanks to the efforts of ICAR-CIBA, the…

Dr. Himanshu Pathak,  Director General, ICAR and Secretary, DARE visited the research facilities at the Muttukadu Experimental Station of CIBA focusing on the breeding and seed production of finfishes, shrimps, mudcrab, and the pilot-scale feed mill on 15th February, 2024. He released shrimp seeds in the nursery tank of the newly developed New Age Shrimp…

ICAR-CIBA signed MoU with Ms.Novozymes South Asia Pvt. Ltd. Karnataka for the contract research for the evaluation of Novozymes BIORAS consortium product during nursery and grow-out farming technology in Penaeid shrimps in the presence of                    Dr. Himanshu Pathak, Secretary (DARE) & Director General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Dr. Joykrushna Jena, Deputy Director General (Fisheries), ICAR,…