Fisheries Dept to Arrange Training on Mud Crab Fattening and Shrimp Farming

Tarun Karthick

Sri Vijaya Puram, 13 March 2025

The Fisheries Training Centre, Marine Hill, underneath the Department of Fisheries, is ready to conduct a three-day coaching programme on ‘Mud Crab Fattening and Shrimp Farming’ with monetary help from the National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB), Hyderabad, underneath the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY). The coaching, scheduled for March 2025, goals to equip members with complete information of brackish water aquaculture.

The programme will cowl important facets such because the design and format of shrimp and crab farms, pre-stocking and stocking administration, feeding methods, and well being administration. Additionally, area visits to aquaculture farms and hatcheries might be organised to supply sensible publicity.

A complete of 25 members might be chosen for the coaching, and the division will information them in enterprise industrial actions via the PMMSY scheme. The coaching is open to fishers, fish farmers, self-help teams (SHGs), entrepreneurs, tribals, and unemployed youth. Selected trainees will obtain a every day allowance of Rs. 300 and a journey allowance of Rs. 100 per day, together with lunch and refreshments.

Interested people can get hold of utility types from the closest Zonal Fisheries Office or Fisheries Sub-Stations. The accomplished purposes have to be submitted by March 21, 2025. For additional particulars, candidates can contact the Fisheries Training Centre, Marine Hill, at 8900942618 or 9594801891 throughout workplace hours.