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ICAR ranks CMFRI as the best Fisheries and Animal Science Institute in India

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Title ICAR ranks CMFRI as the best Fisheries and Animal Science Institute in India
 
Creator CMFRI, Kochi
 
Subject CMFRI
 
Description The latest ranking of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) based
on research and other activities during 2019-2021, Central Marine Fisheries
Research Institute, headquartered in Kerala, bagged the first position in the
category of Fisheries and Animal Science institutes in the country. The institute also
stood third among the 93 institutes, under all divisions of crop science, horticultural
science, natural resource management, agricultural engineering, animal science and
fisheries science. The recognition of this feat according to Dr. A. Gopalakrishnan,
Director, CMFRI is due to the collective efforts of the CMFRI family in research and
development activities for the sustainable growth of the country’s marine fisheries.
In addition, attempts to popularize mariculture activities like cage fish and seaweed
farming, technology development for breeding of commercially important fishes,
research initiatives to develop nutraceutical products from marine organisms, efforts
for making relevant policies, studies on socio-economics of the sector and extension
activities are among many others. Kochi headquartered CMFRI has regional research
centres in Veraval, Karwar, Mangalore, Kozhikode, Vizhinjam, Chennai, Tuticorin,
Mandapam, Visakhapatnam and Digha.
 
Publisher Aquaculture Spectrum
 
Date 2022
 
Type Article
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/16460/1/Aquaculture%20Spectrum_September%202022_ICAR%20Award.pdf
CMFRI, Kochi (2022) ICAR ranks CMFRI as the best Fisheries and Animal Science Institute in India. Aquaculture Spectrum, 5 (9). p. 69. ISSN 2581-7892