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East Champaran, Bihar is very resourceful in terms of inland open waters - chaurs, mauns, rivulets, canals, and reservoirs. Despite abundant aquatic resources, the supply of adequate fish is short of demand in this district. Based on the need of the present day, a 7 days training programme on “Inland Fisheries Management” has been organized at ICAR-CIFRI, Barrackpore during 28 December 2021 to 03January 2022 as a part of skill development and capacity building programme with a mission to increase the fishers’ income double. A total of 30 active fishers participated in this programme. Inaugurating the programme, Dr. B.K. Das, Director of the Institute emphasised on the skill development of the fishers on various aspects of inland fisheries management ensuring their sustainable livelihood security. He also urged the fishers to explore their available resources for optimum productions and productivity by acquiring scientific knowledge and applications. During training, the farmers were exposed to both in-house theoretical and practical knowledge along with exposing them to on-field demonstrations covering different aspects of inland fisheries management, including pond construction and management, soil and water quality management, feed and feeding protocol, ornamental fish farming, breeding aspects of fishes, nutritional requirements, fish health management, enclosure culture, economic aspects of different fish culture activities, fish marketing, overview on Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojona, etc. Exposing to field visits included: ICAR-CIFA Kalyani fish farms, Khamargachi and Balagarh progressive fish farms, East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW), ornamental fish markets, etc. Re-circulatory Aquaculture System (RAS), Bio-floc units, ornamental hatchery units and feed mill of the Institute were made available to them as well as provided hands-on training on different need-based aspects like basic water quality parameters, fish feed preparation using locally available feed ingredients, identification of fish pathogens and their respective remedial measures, etc. The feedback session was marked with overall satisfaction of the trainees admitting their up-scaling of knowledge which would be applied in their respective water resources. Dr. S. Samanta, Head REF Division in his valedictory remarks invoked the farmers to apply the knowledge gained from this training to consolidate more productions. The training programme was successfully coordinated by Dr. A K. Das, In-charge, Extension & Training Cell, and co-coordinated by Dr. D. Bhakta, Scientist, REF Division of the Institute.
Updated on 13/01/2022
