CIFRI Awards
Enhancing fish production in Odisha requires a comprehensive approach that addresses various aspects of fisheries and aquaculture.
Odisha, with its vast coastline, rivers, lakes, and ponds, has significant potential for increasing fish production. The Government of Odisha is also emphasizing to enhance fish production and productivity from both the Inland and Brackish water sectors as well as to improve the fishers income. For that, strengthening extension services to provide training and technical support to fish farmers and fishermen is crucial. This also includes the capacity building of the Fishery Officials who impart the technical know-how to the farmers. Keeping this in view, a three-days training programme (DOF, Odisha sponsored) was organized at ICAR-CIFRI from 28 to 30 August, 24 at CIFRI Head Quarter for 30 officials covering 27 districts of Odisha. 
The training module was specially designed for the young officials after assessing their training needs. A total of five classroom sessions, three practical sessions, one demonstration session and a field exposure visit were conducted to build the capacity of the trainee officials. In the inauguration session, Dr. B.K Das, Director of CIFRI, emphasized the need for hands-on training and skill development of the young officials so that they can contribute to the livelihood improvement of fishers of the respective state. After the inauguration, a laboratory visit was conducted. 
In the classroom session, topics like inland fisheries management, the importance of soil and water quality analysis, common fish diseases, fish disease diagnosis method, fish disease management in enclosure etc were covered. A field visit was conducted to East Kolkata wetland and an on-field practical session was also arranged there. The officials also visited the CIFE Kolkata Centre.
In the feedback session, 92% of the trainees expressed that they were highly satisfied and it would be very beneficial for them in their professional career. During the valedictory session; Dr B.K Das, Director, CIFRI congratulated all the participants on their successful training and distributed the training completion certificate.
Training Programme was coordinated by Dr. Aparna Roy and Dr. Vikash Kumar with assistance from Shri Sujit Chowdhury, Dr. Avishek Saha, Mr. Asim Jana, and Shri Manabendra Roy.
