ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (ICAR-CIFRI) has provided fish seed, feed and lime along with technical support to 500-odd distressed fish farmers of Kultali in Sunderbans to help them improve their livelihoods. Led by director B K Das, ICAR-CIFRI has also empowered rural women with technical support and technological inputs for ornamental fish farming. \u201cThe aim is to ensure that an investment of Rs 32 lakh in a cluster of 500 fishermen in the area generates around Rs 2 crore,\u201d Das said.<\/p>\n
Three lakh fish seed, 52.5 tonne fish feed, 10 tonne lime and 55 ornamental units were distributed among 555 people. Live demonstrations, mass awareness events and on-site training and capacity building programmes were also held.<\/p>\n
Fish is an integral part of the lives, livelihoods and diets of people living in the Sunderbans. Every household has a backyard pond. The major chunk of their harvest from pisciculture is for their own consumption with only 15%-20% sold in the market.<\/p>\n
Following ICAR-CIFRI intervention, each household has, on an average, sold 100-150 kg fish for Rs 10,000-15,000 in the past six months and has a standing stock of around 60%. \u201cIt is expected that 200-300 kg of fish will be harvested from the backyard ponds with an anticipated average income of Rs 22,000-30,000, leading to income of Rs 1.3 crore from this cluster apart from household consumption,\u201d said Das.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178],"tags":[],"region":[],"source":[228],"country":[9145],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/95762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/95762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95763,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/95762\/revisions\/95763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95762"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=95762"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=95762"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=95762"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=95762"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=95762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}