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ICAR-CIBA conducted five days hands on training on “Advances in Seed Production and Farming of Brackishwater Finfishes” during 7-11th August, 2023. A total of 17 participants representing Govt. officials, farmers, entrepreneurs, aquaculture consultants, academicians and research scholars from Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Kerala, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu states attended the training.  The training module consisted…

Hepatopancreatic Microsporidiosis (HPM) caused by Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei (EHP) is a severe disease at present causing heavy loss to the shrimp farmers and the loss due to this disease alone is estimated to be Rs.5000 crores. Therefore, the farmers are frantically looking for a remedy to this menace. During the recently held shrimp farmers conclave, Dr.T.Sathish…

ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (ICAR-CIBA), Chennai, organised training and demonstration programs in collaboration with Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on “Recycling of fish waste to value added products, CIBA-Planktonplus and CIBA-Hortiplus” for empowering and uplifting the lives of coastal communities at Rameshwaram taluk, Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nadu during 8- 10th  August  2023.…

A training programme on “Hands on training programme on molecular techniques for fish and shrimp diseases” was conducted at aquatic animal health and environment division of ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (CIBA), Chennai under the referral laboratory component of National Surveillance Programme for Aquatic Animal Diseases (NSPAAD) – Phase II project during 24th July to…

The ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (ICAR-CIBA) conducted the Shrimp Farmers Conclave-2023 on 1st August, 2023 at the Faculty of Marine Sciences, Annamalai University wherein about 431 shrimp farmers cutting across the coastal districts of Tamil Nadu participated. In addition to that officials, technicians, faculty and students were also participated in large number. The main…