The Centre is working out modalities with insurance companies to introduce an insurance cover for fish and shrimp stocks at a lower premium on the lines of agriculture and livestock insurance.
The Union government will allow cultivation of Penaeus vannamei (white prawn) in India from the ensuing stocking season in February next year, according to National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) chief executive officer P Krishnaiah.
The National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) is preparing to call tenders in a month for construction of various facilities for the specific pathogen-free (SPF) shrimp seed (Penaeus monodon – black tiger prawn) multiplication centre at Mulapolam village in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh.
The Union agriculture ministry has finally granted permission to cultivate the Litopenaeus Vannamei species of shrimp in India, a long-pending demand of aquaculture and seafood export industry of the
The agriculture ministry has sought the Cabinets approval to set up a National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) to spearhead a Rs 2,100 crore fisheries project which aims to inject professionalism
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