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On the occasion of ICAR foundation day, the Institute Technology Management and Agricultural Business Incubator Unit of ICAR-CIBA conducted a Ciba Digital Conference (CDC-2) on Saturday, 18 July 2020. National and international policy makers, scientist and the professional shared their experience and vision forward at the conference with a focus on the role of ‘emerging…

  Pacific white shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) is the popular species being farmed in India, which constitute 90% of the farmed shrimp production, valued at Rs.30,000 crores.  This single species focus based on imported Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) broodstock of vannamei, raises serious question on the sustainability of the sector. It is important to have back…

The ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (ICAR-CIBA) has received national recognition with a farmer who adopted the technologies of the institute bagging the prestigious Jagjivan Ram Innovative Farmer award of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). Shri.T Purushothaman, a leading shrimp farmer from Kerala won the award which is in recognition of his outstanding…

The Hon’ble Prime Minister has called upon the nation to begin a campaign, Swachhata Hi Seva, shun single use plastic, from 11th September 2019 to Gandhi Jayanti on 2nd October 2019. The main aim of the Swcahhata Hi Seva campaign was to highlight the importance of avoiding the single use plastics and how to control…

At CIBA Headquarters in Chennai, “Phone-in-Programme (PiP)” a novel connectivity platform through mobile phones was organized wherein 68 fish farmers/fisherfolk/technicians brackishwater aquaculture farmers interacted with subject matter specialists through on-line on the various subject of “Sea bass, milkfish, Pearl spot Culture and its Farm Management Practices”, shrimp culture, crab fattening, feeds and feed management, soil…