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Its bouquet of brands – L:exotique, Dezi Fresh, Censa and SV Agri grab attention

Charting India on the global grandstand, Chennai-based Waycool Foods, India’s leading food and agri-tech platform, pavilioned at the Asia Food Logistica 2022, in Bangkok today. Inspired by the banyan tree, Indian carvings and true-colour themed pavilion personified the Indian culture and value system that WayCool has imbibed. With the most comprehensive tech stack in food, WayCool showcased its robust supply chain, armed by its bouquet of brands – L’exotique, Dezi Fresh, Censa and SV Agri.

Asia Fruit Logistica 2022, is Asia’s number one international trade show for fresh fruits and vegetables. It comprises the cumulative fresh produce industry value chain along with service support companies, as well as the latest, innovative products and ideas. The platform also presents a unique opportunity to develop new business, build quality networks and gain a plethora of information about the current market while emphasizing on shared origins, values, and technical solutions of diverse brands.

Inviting over 10,000 quality buyers and trade visitors from around 70 countries, and more than 420 exhibitors from 42 countries, the convention witnessed the company’s immense potential in harnessing AI, machine learning and robotics to redefine the journey of food from soil to sale.

Commenting on the occasion, Karthik Jayaraman, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Waycool Foods, said, “As India’s largest food and Agritech platform, we are extremely delighted to present India’s strength to address global food security concerns, as well as build strategic partnership to help global food companies get inroads to massive Indian consumer market. It was also an opportunity for the global food ecosystem players to witness WayCool’s efforts, tech, along with the impact our brands have created. Integrating physical and digital worlds through our business model, we strive to create a dynamically sustainable change in the ways food is procured and distributed by leveraging the power of technology. This platform is key to India and our company’s visibility in the global arena, and we are certain that the venture will further drive foreign investments to our country and help scale the food industry whilst cementing our presence overseas as well.”

Its bouquet of brands – L:exotique, Dezi

Acquaculture, Agri Genomics, Agro Universities

The whole-genome information of an aquaculture species has potential applications in the genomic selection and breeding of fish for sustainable production and improvement in the desirable traits like disease resistance

In a major achievement, the ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, Chennai’s Scientists have sequenced and assembled the whole genome of the Grey Mullet – Mugil cephalus. The whole-genome information of an aquaculture species has potential applications in the genomic selection and breeding of fish for sustainable production and improvement in the desirable traits like disease resistance, growth and development. The Mugil cephalus is commonly distributed across the world and mostly inhabits the inshore sea, estuaries and brackish water areas. The fish is of commercial value to the global fisheries and aquaculture, there is also high demand for mullet roe.

The whole-genome sequence of Mugil cephalus is a major landmark and this very high-quality genome assembly at the contig-level contained 848 contigs with N50 length of 20.15 Mb. At scaffold level, the assembly is 644 Mb in length in 583 scaffolds with N50 of 28.32 Mb. The fish genome contains 27,269 protein-coding genes.

The whole-genome sequence assembly generated for the first time for Mugil cephalus can be used as a reference genome for the family Mugilidae. The high-quality, chromosome-level genome assembly along with the predicted protein sequences would help to gain further insights into desirable traits through gene expression studies. The whole-genome assembly would provide the baseline information needed to implement genetic improvement programmes for this commercially important fish species in future.

The institute’s science team involved in the fish genome assembly were Dr MS Shekhar, Dr Vinaya Kumar Katneni, Dr Ashok Kumar Jangam, Dr Raymond Jani Angel, Dr Krishna Sukumaran and Dr M Kailasam. The Genome Sequencing Project was financially supported by the ICAR-Consortium Research Platform on Genomics and coordinated by Dr Joykrushna Jena, Deputy Director General (Fisheries Science), ICAR.

The whole-genome information of an aquaculture species

Allied Industry, Foodgrains, Schemes - NABARD, Vegetables

Puliyankudi acid lime, Thooyamalli rice and have applied for the tag

Three Tamil Nadu-based products — the Puliyankudi acid lime, Thooyamalli rice and Virudhunagar sambha vathal (Chilly) have applied for a Geographical Indication (GI) tag in Chennai. Details on all these three products were collated and prepared by IPR attorney P. Sanjai Gandhi on behalf of the applicants.

The application for the Puliyankudi acid lime was made by the Tamil Nadu State Agricultural Marketing Board and Melapuliyankudi Farmers’ Association. The NABARD Madurai Agri Business Incubation Forum was the facilitator.

Puliyankudi, a village in Tenkasi, is famous for acid lime cultivation. Among local people this place is called the lemon city of Tamil Nadu. Kadayam lemon here is popular for its taste and juiciness. Acid lime trees are small and bushy with sharp spines. Leaves are small with narrowly winged petioles. The flowers and fruits are small. The lemon grown in this region weighs about 50g and each tree bears around 950 fruits. It is grown in Puliyankudi, Sankarankovil, Kadayam, Kadayanallur and Kuruvikulam and adjoining areas.

The Virudhunagar Chillies’ Merchants Association, along with Tamil Nadu State Agricultural Marketing Board, has applied for GI tag for Virudhunagar sambha vathal. In Tamil Nadu, chillies are mainly grown in the districts of Virudhunagar, Ramanathapuram, Sivagangai and Thoothukudi and the major markets for them are also located here.

The Tamil Nadu State Agricultural Marketing Board is the applicant for Thooyamalli rice and this was facilitated by NABARD Madurai Agri-Business Incubation Forum. The seeds are directly sown and the transplanting system is used for growing this variety.

Puliyankudi acid lime, Thooyamalli rice and have

Acquaculture, Agro Universities, Sustainability

According to the experts, the effort will undoubtedly improve the economic benefits, contribute to innovation and growth and encourage sustainability

The ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, Chennai signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Coastal Corporation, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh for the production of indigenous shrimp larval feed in Chennai.

In his address, Dr Joykrushna Jena, Deputy Director General (Fisheries Science), ICAR highlighted the necessity for promoting the Indigenous Larval Feed.

Dr KP Jithendran, Director, ICAR-CIBA, Chennai stated that the effort will undoubtedly improve the economic benefits, contribute to innovation and growth and encourage sustainability and competitiveness in the aquafeed sector in the longer run.

VR Sharma, Vice-President, Coastal Corporation shared the encouraging trial results obtained with the ICAR-CIBA Shrimp LarviPlus.

Dr K Ambasankar, Principal Scientist and Team Leader for the Feed Technology, ICAR-CIBA, Chennai outlined the initiative’s genesis in line with the Make in India Programme.

According to the experts, the effort will

Acquaculture, Agro Universities

The main objective of the MoU signed with the university is to evaluate the nano-sensors for sustainable intensification of the different aquaculture systems

The ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, Chennai signed the two Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with the Hindustan University of Technology and Science, Chennai and AA Biotech, Chennai for collaborative research.

Dr KP Jithendran, Director, ICAR-CIBA, Chennai emphasised the significance of the collaborative research and validation of the technology between a research institution, academic university and aquaculture entrepreneur that would facilitate knowledge sharing, technology validation and popularisation of the broad spectrum of the techniques available in the institute.

Dr K Nandakumar, Director of Research (who signed the MoU) on the behalf of Hindustan University, Chennai stated that through the partnership, the specialized capacities of both the Institutions would aid in the application of the nano-Sensors for sustainable intensification of the different aquaculture systems.

Udaya Ram Jothy, CEO, AA Biotech said that the water testing protocol would address the farm level issues like a human error in testing water quality parameters, rapid detection, geo-location and option for rectifying errors in tests with a reasonable cost.

The main objective of the MoU signed with the university is to evaluate the nano-sensors for sustainable intensification of the different aquaculture systems like RAS and Biofloc-based systems and synthesis of the nanoparticles for the targeted therapy and protein/peptide characterisation. The MoU with the AA Biotechis aimed at the calibration and validation of the water quality testing protocol in aquaculture.

The main objective of the MoU signed

Acquaculture, Agro Universities, Animal Health

The products were produced and marketed by Alpha Biologicals, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh

The ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, Chennai has launched its technology products for “Mitigation of Nitrite Metabolite in Shrimp Ponds and Control of External Parasite in Fish. The products were produced and marketed by Alpha Biologicals, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh.

Dr KP Jithendran, Director, ICAR-CIBA, Chennai stressed developing efficient products that are safe for the environment. Dr Amaraneni Ravi Kumar, Managing Partner, Alpha Biologicals emphasised the need for quality products to support aquaculture. He also underlined the field trials conducted across the country.

The NOVACIDE-ALF is an efficient oral preparation for controlling the crustacean parasites like Argulus spp., Caligus spp., Lernanthropsis spp. and Lernaea spp. in the different fish species in vivid culture systems, such as aquariums, ponds, cages, concrete tanks, FRP tanks and lakes with a wide range of salinities 0 to 30 ppt. The NOVATAN-AMS uses the formulation containing the enrichments of nitrite oxidising bacteria that are efficient in oxidising the toxic metabolite nitrite to non-toxic nitrate.

The company has started the commercial production of the products and is planning to market them in the major aquaculture states of the country.

The products were produced and marketed by

Agro Universities, Live Stock, Nature

The MoU will ensure the widespread availability of anti-methanogenic supplements across different parts of the country and seasons

ICAR-NIANP and Radiant Chem Industries, Chennai have entered a functional-industry linkage through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for undertaking collaborative research to develop the anti-methanogenic product (s) using industrially available tannins. The MoU was signed by Dr Raghavendra Director, ICAR-NIANP and Bharat Jain from Radiant Chem Industries, Chennai. To ensure the widespread availability of anti-methanogenic supplements across different parts of the country and seasons the MoU will play a key role.

The contribution of global cattle and buffaloes to the annual enteric methane emission is 77 and 13 per cent, respectively. India has about 13 per cent of the global population of cattle and 53 per cent of the global population of buffaloes and these account for 4.92 and 2.91 Tg of annual global enteric methane emission from the respective species.

ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology has carried out systematic and comprehensive research and developed phyto-sources based anti-methanogenic products such as Harit Dhara and Tamarin Plus.

The MoU will ensure the widespread availability