ICAR-CIBA, Chennai adopted Farmer wins national recognition

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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…

ICAR-CIBA celebrated National Fish Farmers Day on 10th July, 2020 at its headquarters in Chennai and its Regional Centers respectively at Kakdwip, West Bengal and Navsari, Gujarat

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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…

ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (ICAR-CIBA) signed MoU with M/s. Raj Hatcheries, Pvt Ltd. West Bengal for the technology alliance on milkfish hatchery the first of its kind

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ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture signed MoU with Raj Hatcheries (Bengal) Pvt. Ltd., East Midnapur district, West Bengal on 17th Sep, 2019 for transfer of milkfish (Chanos chanos) hatchery technology and to set up a state of the art finfish hatchery in West Bengal. Milkfish is a fast-growing, euryhaline and herbivorous brackishwater food fish can…

Kakdwip Research Centre of ICAR-CIBA Distributed Fish Feed to the Cyclone “Umphun” Affected Farmers of Sundarban

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The extremely severe cyclone, “Umphan” caused havoc in the lives of Sundarban inhabitants on 20th May 2020. It has badly affected all types of fish culture systems in Sundaban delta of West Bengal. During the post-cyclone and COVID-19 lockdown period, farmers are unable to get inputs essential for fish farming. Therefore, their farming operations are…