World Environment day was celebrated at ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (CIBA), Chennai to emphasize the need to protect the environment. The theme of the World Environment Day, 2019 was “Beat the Air Pollution”. In his presidential address, Dr. K.K. Vijayan, Director, ICAR-CIBA, underlined the initiative taken by ICAR-CIBA viz. banning of plastic use in…
Fish waste processing technology developed by ICAR-CIBA for the production of PlanktonPlus from fish waste sourced from fish markets has been transferred to aqua-entrepreneurs, Sri Nagakishore Mudedla and Sri Syamala Rao Maradani, from Gudivada, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, through an MoU on 16th May 2019, at CIBA Headquarters, Chennai. Under the agreement, the ICAR-CIBA will…
ICAR-CIBA, Chennai signed MOU with Academy of Maritime Education and Training, (AMET, Deemed to be University), on the 15th May 2019 for technical collaboration on the frontiers of live feed production. Under the agreement, CIBA and AMET will collaborate on the research aspects of copepod biology and scaling up the production of selected species of…
ICAR-CIBA has identified the brackishwater ornamental aquariculture as a sector with greater growth prospects in the country. As a part of this, Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (CIBA), Chennai signed a MOU with Mr. Joshy Paul, ‘Ornamental Fish Entrepreneur’, a progressive ornamental fish breeder and trader from Thrissur, Kerala. This is a maiden MOU by…
A team of 14 officials from Government of Bangladesh led by Ms Mahbooba Panna, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, visited ICAR-CIBA on 25 th April 2019. The main purpose behind this visit was to see the developments in the shrimp farming sector in India and to share the challenges India faced in the past one decade…