Appreciates the institute’s dairy cattle unit, eco-friendly wastewater treatment facility
Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying recently visited the ICAR-Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute, Goa. The union minister was accompanied by Dr Pramod Sawant, Chief Minister, Government of Goa; Filipe Neri Rodrigues, Minister for Fisheries and Water Resources Department, Government of Goa; JN Swain, Secretary, Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying; Dr OP Chaudhary, Joint Secretary (NLM/PC) and J Balaji, Joint Secretary (Marine Fisheries), Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying.
Rupala visited the institute’s dairy cattle unit, eco-friendly wastewater treatment facility and appreciated the efforts being taken in enhancing the animal and fisheries production. The union minister also highlighted the benefits of the revised schemes for creating the Entrepreneurship in the field of animal husbandry and fisheries.
Dr Sawant highlighted the measures taken by the state government for the farmers’ benefits. JN Swain underlined the Government of India’s Schemes and scope of aquaculture which has a potential in the Coastal Regions due to high rainfall.
J Balaji stated about the Fisheries Schemes and Programmes for the farmers’ benefits. Dr O P Chaudhary mentioned about the revised Schemes of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying.
The occasion also marked a tree plantation drive along with the inauguration of the newly developed fodder museum which boasts of growing 35 different fodder species suitable for the coastal region and can act as a live demonstration unit for the farmers.
