ICAR-Navsari Gujarat Research Centre of CIBA, Navsari, Gujarat has been established in the year 2018 to evolve in to a nodal centre for development of brackishwater aquaculture in the west coast. The centre is located in Navsari, in the South Gujarat region, that forms the most intensive shrimp farming regions in the country. After the…
The ICAR- Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, Chennai, the new annex building “ICAR-CIBA headquarters Block II” opened on Friday, May 28, 2021, adding an area of 8000 square feet. During the occasion Dr. K.K.Vijayan, Director, CIBA, highlighted the scope of the block, when additional floors are being added to the block, as it has the provision…
ICAR-CIBA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Central University of Kerala (CUK) to promote brackishwater aquaculture in the north Kerala on 25 May, 2021. As part of the MoU it is proposed to undertake awareness and capacity development programmes on brackishwater aquaculture to educate people about the potential of brackishwater aquaculture and…
In a major breakthrough that would give a fillip to diversification of brackishwater aquaculture, the ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (CIBA), Chennai has succeeded in developing captive broodstock and seed production technology of an another marine fish Mangrove Red Snapper (Lutjanus argentemaculatus) for the first time in India. CIBA has already developed the breeding and…
ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, Chennai officially inaugurated three additional infrastructure viz., ICAR-CIBA’s Kovalam Experimental Station, Farmer Facilitation Centre and Brackishwater Ornamental Fish Hatchery and Finfish Seed Rearing Unit on 22.05.2021. Dr.J.K.Jena, Deputy Director General (Fisheries), ICAR, New Delhi, inaugurated the new Kovalam Experimental Station (KES), by on-line mode, in the presence Chief Guest Shri.…