The CIFRI Newsletter Wishes Its Readers a Happy and Prosperous 1978
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The CIFRI Newsletter Wishes Its Readers A Happy And Prosperous 1978 Volume 2 December 1977 Number 2 PARLIAMENT MEMBERS ViSIT CIFRI Members of the Parlia• alloted to them. On the eve of developing labour intensive, low mentary Consultative Committee their departure from the Institute, cost and high yielding techno• (1977-78) on Agriculture and Srri R. N. Kushwaha, MP, on be• logies of fish farming for develop• half of the team, thanked the Irrigation visited the Central ment of inland fish farming in Inland Fisheries Research Insti• tute, Barrackpore, the centres of the All India Co-ordinated Rese• arch Projects on 'Composite Fish Culture and Fish Seed Pro• duction' and 'Air-breathing Fish Culture' at Kalyani and that of the Operational Research Project at Krishnanagar in West Bengal on October 10-11,1977. In Orissa, the Members of the Parliamentary Consu Itative Committee visited Freshwater Aquaculture Research & Training Centre at Dhauli, Trainers' Training Centre & Krishi Vigyan Kendra at Kaushalyagang, the Cuttack Research Centre of 'the Freshwater Aquaculture Divi• sion and Puri Centre of the CIFRlj IORC Rural Aquaculture Project Dr. V. G. Jhingran, Director CIFRI (back towards the camera) in discourse on October 13-14,1977. with the MPs. Dr. V. G. Jhingran, Director while welcoming the honourable Members at the Institute briefly Director, the Scientists and the India. The text of the note sub• explained the organisational set• Staff of this Institute for _the mitted by the Committee to the up, objectives and the pioneering efficient conduct of their tour. Hon'ble Minister for Agriculture research accomplishments of the and Irrigation, Government of Institute. The Members of the The Committee Members India, Shri S. S. Barnala, is as Committee discussed individually were highly impressed by the follows: with Scientists the progress of efforts made at the Central Inland research on specific problems Fisheries Research Institute in a) A system of intensive fish culture in freshwater ponds and 3. While the Committee is diately develop programmes for tanks called composite fish cul• pleased to note that great strides_ spread of freshwater fish culture 'ture. This combines' Indian major have been made in inland fish- in different States of the country. -,.~.----- carps, roh_u, catla and mrigal and the Chinese' carps, silver carp, grass carp and common carp. b) A system of the air-brea• thing fish culture in derelict waters such as those of swamps and marshes. This involves culture of magur, singhi, koi and murrels. c) A system of brackishwater fish and prawn culture. This involves culture of shrimps, mullets and bhekti. Shrimps are highly priced export commodity. d) A system of integrated rural development especially combining pond fish culture with duck, pig and poultry rearing; M Ps witnessing netting operation in the composite fish culture pond at further integrating it with agri• Kulia Fish Farm, Kalyani (West Bengal ). culture, horticulture and sericul• ture. also involving use ef treated eries research and results of Since the technology of compo• sewage. great developmental values have site fish culture is fully tried and been obtained, it is disappointed time tested and is revolutionising e) A system of fish breeding to note that the application of in its potential, failures in by pituitary hormone injection. achieving targets laid down This imparts a measure of control research by the Department of should not go unpunished. on fish reproduction. The Insti• Agriculture, Government of India, tute has received several awards and the States has greatly lagged behind. The effort of West 5. The following steps may including a first international be adopted for giving the country award for a film based on this Bengal Government in promoting the benefits of research in the technology. the spread of freshwater aquacul• . ture in their State is in the right field of inland fish culture. 2. The technology of compo• direction. The great gulf bet• a) Every existing State site fish culture has been applied ween the progress of research Government fish farm in each by 91 private fish culturists of on the one hand and of develop• State of the country should be Bengal with revelingly outstand• ment of inland fisheries on the brought under intensive fish cul• ing results. Senior State Govern• other, deprived the country of the ture system. ment officials of the State and benefits of research in inland staff of CIFRI have bmught out fisheries. This situation is unten• b) Additionally atleast one modern freshwater fish farm, a joint publication on this work. able and must be immediately The Institute has also brought removed. about 500 acres in area, be esta• out a bulletin on 138 case studies blished in each State wherein of composite fish culture in 4. The Ministry of Agriculture, fish seed and table-sized fish different agro,-climatic zones of Government of India and the production should be integrated Lndia. State Governments should imme- with animal husbandry, poultry 2 water fish culture, like the one existing in Japan, should be developed. h) The irrigation command areas should be linked with fresh• water fish culture especially fish seed production. i) The ditches on either side of the railway lines and high• ways ,thr911ghout the country should be developed for fish culture., The Railway Ministry and the Central and State Public Works D@partments may take immediate steps in this regard. j) The fish farmers' develop• Shri M. Sinha, SCientist-in"Charge, showing the MPs a grass carp raised in ment agency should be made mu• the composite fish culture pond at Kalyani ( West Bengal ). ch more purposeful and be effec• be constructed and fish farming tively instrumental to bring horr.e and horticulture. For this pur• carried out along scientific lines. the technology of composite pose, the Central Fisheries Cor• fish culture to the fish farmers. pJration, which hitherto is merely f) A Krishi Vigyan Kendra for a marKeting cJrporation should inland aquaculture set up in each k) Inland Fisheries is a la• Sta1e at the sites of the Central be converted into a production bour intensive rural occupation Fisheries Corporation fish farms. corporation. These farms will, in and offers tremendous scope addition to producing stocking g) The country has an exten• for integrated countryside de• material and fish, ,help in exten• sive network of canals. A system velopment which can generate ding pisciculture in each Stale. of fish culture to utilise running wealth in villages and improve c) Each maritime State should additionally have atleast one brackishwater fish farm, about 250 acres in area, on the same pattern as the freshwater fish farm. d) The infrastructure required for such a massive development such as estabiishment of' seed production centres in the form of hatcheries, assured supply of fertilisers and feeds should be safe-guarded again$t. e) Each State should survey to locate wetlands, low-lying areas, swamps and marshes where fish farms provided with Netting demonstration at Operationa I Research Project Pond at Krishnanagar protective embankments should ( West Bengal). The visiting MPs are also seen in the picture. 3 the nutritional status of the protein starved people of India. It is, therefore, essential that the Ministry of Agriculture has full• fledged Commissioner exclu• sively for inland fisheries. I) The Planning Commission has no Consultant for inland fisheries development and it is essential that the body has sub• ject matter specialist as a Consultant for inland fisheries. m) In view of the revolution• ing role of inland fisheries in In• dia's rural development, the Central Exchequer should allot su bstan• tial sums of money to the State Governments for their scientific Shri B. K. Sharma, Scientist-in-Charge, explaining the MPs the concept and inland fish culture development. scope of integration of aquaculture and animal husbandry at Anjanll Fish Farm. Krishnanagar ( West Bengal ). n) The Centre and States should greatly strengthen their inland fisheries extension acti• RESEARCH NEWS vities. SUCCESSFUL POND CULTURE OF MACROBRACHIUM ROSENE ERGII DR. V. G. jHINGRAN VISITS INDONESIA The Kakinada Research Cen• showed an average size of Dr. V. G. Jhingran, Direc• tre of the Institute conducting 157.8 mmj40.7 g. The manage• tor, Central Inland Fisheries investigations on the standardi• ment measures included pre• Research Institute, Barrackpore, sat ion of prawn culture tech• stocking, fertilisation of pond on an assignment as a Consul• niques, has succeeded in raising with 480 kg of cattle. shed tant to the World Bank, Mission notable crops of giant fresh• manure fol/owed by liming and II, visited Indonesia during De• water prawn, Macrobrachium supplementary feeding with cember 1-27,1977. rosenbergii, in two successive minced' foot of Pi/a, rice-bran experiments from the laboratory and tapioca separately @ 500• SEAFDEC OFFICIALS VISIT CIFRI raised second generation seed. 1,000 gjday. To avoid wastage In one of the experiments, a of feed, an important cost factor, A 6-member team of the freshwater pond (0.02 ha) at quantum of supply was restricted South East Asian Fisheries Balabhadrapuram (A.P.) stocked depending upon the magnitude Development Centre( SEAFDEC ) with 319 specimens (i. e. , @ of un-utilised feed left on the visited the Institute's Head• 15,590jha) of M. rosenbergii (av. planks and earthen pots installed quarters on 9th November, 1977. size: 85.90 mmj6.14 g) yielded in the shallower zones of the They also visited the centres of gross and net productions to the pond as food containers. The the Co-ordinated Research Pro· tune of 11,55 (c. 577.7 kgjha) coefficient of the body weight ject at Kalyani, Operational Re• and 9.59 kg (c. 479.7 kgjha) gained was highly encouraging search Project at Krishnanagar respectively in 4 months with (1 : 9.57).