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| Govt to promote Biofloc technology for boosting fish farming: Navin Choudhary | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 9: Principal Secretary Fisheries, Navin Choudhary has asked the Fisheries department to promote Biofloc technology for boosting fish farming in potential areas of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory.
The Principal Secretary also instructed to depute the staff of all the districts for undergoing training at the private highly successful Biofloc unit at Bajalta on rotation basis.
In view of the multiple benefits of Biofloc Technology System over conventional pond Fish culture system and to demonstrate this high yielding Intensive Fish Farming to Farmers, the biofloc technology is being introduced in J&K. The department plans to promote the novel technology among the Farming community and unemployed youth for adoption of the same as an income generating Fish Farming unit.
Navin Choudhary recently visited to the Hunters Ranch at Meluri Jagir, Bajalta for inspection of the Biofloc unit established in private Sector by Colonel Sunil Singh Sambyal.
The Principal Secretary appreciated the efforts of the Department and issued on spot Instruction to the Director Fisheries, to establish such units in the other feasible areas of the Union Territory of J & K. The Principal Secretary also instructed to depute the staff of all the districts for undergoing training at this Biofloc unit on rotation basis.
Principal Secretary while appreciating the efforts of the Department and also the Colonel Sunil Singh Sambyal and Dr Uttam Singh Sambyal stressed that future for the markets for organic food is definitely bright and it is rapidly growing in some developing countries. He further added that with consumer awareness of food safety, health and environmental issues , the organic food sector has become an attractive opportunity for the farmers to fetch more income and markets would grow with the support of such farmers, the Government and such entrepreneurs coming together to work with farmers.
The Principal Secretary was accompanied by Mohammad Amin Mir, Director Fisheries J & K and other officers of the Department. |
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