Doubling farmers income through inland low saline shrimp farming in South Western Punjab: ICAR-CIBA initiative under skill India Programme 2017
South Western Punjab in India possesses abundant resources of inland saline groundwater, similar to brackish water with salinities ranging from 3 to 15 ppt. The districts of Bathinda, Muktsar, Fazilka and parts of Mansa have regions with underlying low saline groundwater; hence agricultural productivity in this region is low as compared to the rest of…