ICAR-CIBA launches Integrated Aqua-Agri-Poultry-Goat farming unit in Gujarat

The integrated unit covers 1.5 ha, including a 1.0 ha brackishwater pond, poultry and goat rearing sheds, and horticulture activities.

The ICAR-Navsari Gujarat Research Centre, Navsari of ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, Chennai established an Integrated Aqua-Agri-Poultry-Goat Farming Unit at Sultanpur Village in Navsari District, under the Scheduled Tribe Component for coastal tribal communities. The integrated unit covers 1.5 ha, including a 1.0 ha brackishwater pond, poultry and goat rearing sheds, and horticulture activities. It also includes nursery and grow-out farming of high-value brackishwater finfish and mud crab box culture, animal husbandry, and horticulture.

Dr. Z. P. Patel, Vice Chancellor, Navsari Agricultiural University inaugurated the unit in the presence of Dr. Kuldeep Lal, Director, ICAR-CIBA, Chennai. A meeting on tribal community livelihood opportunities was organized, featuring scientists from ICAR-CIBA, subject matter specialists from ICAR-KVK, Navsari, and Livestock Research Station, Kamdhenu University.

A total of 150 tribal beneficiaries from Sultanpur, Eroo, Abrama and Singod villages of Navsari attended the programme.

The integrated unit covers 1.5 ha, including