CIFRI Awards
ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore organised a workshop on “Strategic planning for nutritional security and productivity enhancement in Hirakud reservoir: An approach to community mobilization” at Sambalpur, Odisha on 1 st march 2021 in collaboration with a NGO (BANO charitable trust, Odisha) and State fisheries department, Odisha. The programme was conducted to aware and motivates the fishers about sustainable reservoir management and its scientific planning. Around 120 fishermen from 6 different primary fishermen cooperative society the locality were participated in the workshop. District magistrate, Shree S. Saxena, IAS was graced the program as chief guest. He mentioned the potential of the Hirakud reservoir and ensured that, the local authority will extend all the support for the development of the fishermen community of the Hirakud reservoir. Dr. B.K. Das, Director, ICAR-CIFRI who was the main architecture and keynote speaker of the program highlighted the importance of the strategic scientific planning of the Hirakud reservoir for the sustainable production to fill the gap between the present production and its actual potential. Dr. Das emphasized that ICAR-CIFRI’s technologies such as cage and pen, will play important role for production of advanced fingerling as a suitable stocking material which can enhance the production of the reservoir. Mr. B. P. Dwibedy, Deputy Director Fisheries, Govt. of Odisha was attended the program and addressed the fishermen and committed to work with ICAR-CIFRI for Hirakud reservoir production enhancement. Mr. Himanshu S. Swain, Scientist, ICAR-CIFRI mentioned the technical aspect of cage culture and also shared the success story of CIFRI GI rectangular cages and circular cages installed in Hirakud reservoir. Dr. A. Rashid, chairmen BANO trust welcomed all the dignitaries and mentioned about the program. During the discussion session, the scientist and fishermen interaction was held in which fishermen shared their issues and experiences. Considering the pandemic situation all the precautionary measures were taken care as per the COVID19 guideline of Govt. of India. The programme was coordinated by Mr. Satish Kaushlesh, Dr. P.K. parida Mr. Himanshu S. Swain and Mr. Mitesh H. Ramteke under the supervision of Dr. B.K. Das, Director, ICAR-CIFRI Barrackpore.
