The tie up will help provide respite from the parasitic outbreak in the inland fisheries and aquaculture
The ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, Kolkata has signed the Technology Transfer License Agreement of ICAR-CIFRI ARGCURE with the Glaucus Agrochem.
Dr Joykrushna Jena, Deputy Director General (Fisheries Science), ICAR stated that the ICAR-CIFRI ARGCURE will surely provide respite from the parasitic outbreak in the inland fisheries and aquaculture.
Dr BK Das, Director, ICAR-CIFRI, Barrackpore and Sariful Islam, MD, Glaucus Agrochem, Kolkata signed the agreement on the behalf of their respective organisations. He emphasised that after the three successful commercialised technologies namely – ICAR-CIFRI GI CAGE, ICAR-CIFRI PEN HDPE and ICAR-CIFRI Cagegrow Fish Feed, this is the fourth technology that is going to be commercialised by the institute.
As per the Technology Commercialisation Guidelines of the Indian Council of Agriculture Research, the commercialisation of ICAR-CIFRI ARGCURE Technology has been facilitated by Agrinnovate India (a Government of India Enterprises).
The ICAR-CIFRI has developed an innovative product- ICAR-CIFRI ARGCURE using a polymeric nanomicelles approach. The experimental results show that the technology is effective in controlling the fish parasite Argulus bengalensis at a low dose as compared to the conventional formulations.
The technology’s application results in the disruption of the hatching process of the parasite. The field evaluations depicted that it performed well in the field conditions and retained the water bodies’ parasite-free for a longer time duration.
The present innovation is directed towards better performance of anti-parasitic molecules against fish parasites through nano-technological interventions and to improve food and environment safety through lowering the anti-parasite application dose.
