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Dr. Joykrushna Jena, Deputy Director General (Fy), ICAR virtually inaugurated the state-of-the-art laboratory on 27th April, 2021 at ICAR-CIBA, Chennai in the presence of Dr. S.K. Chaudari, Deputy Director General (NRM), ICAR, Dr. V.K. Singh, Director, ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad, the coordinating Centre of NICRA project and DR. K.K. Vijayan, Director, ICAR-CIBA. M. Muralidhar, Principal Investigator of…

ICAR-CIBA developed and launched an online version of brackishwater aquaculture database (online Aquastat) through collection and collation of major data components on various aspects of brackishwater aquaculture viz., Global and Indian scenario of brackishwater aquaculture, production and trade statistics etc. The hard copy version of the dedicated database on Brackishwater Aquaculture and related stakeholders were…

ICAR-CIBA, Chennai has developed an indigenous vaccine for viral nervous necrosis (VNN) affecting several species of fish. Dr. J.K. Jena, Deputy Director General (Fisheries), ICAR released the recombinant VNN vaccine, CIBA-Nodavac-R,  in the presence of Dr. S. K. Chaudhari, Deputy Director General (NRM), ICAR and Dr. V. K. Singh, Director, ICAR-CRIDA in a virtual event…

Diversification of brackishwater aquaculture is gaining considerable momentum in India in general and Kerala in particular. Various species of finfish are farmed in brackishwaters in Kerala. However, the major bottleneck for the large scale propagation of brackishwater aquaculture is the availability of cost effective & quality feeds, as the formulated feeds are totally transported from…