Diglipur, Sept. 19: The Out Reach Centre (ORC) of CARI established with the support of NABARD at Diglipur has conducted a Scientist- Farmers Interaction on Institutional Innovation in association with KVK, Fisheries Science Division and Department of Fisheries on 17th September 2012 at Keralapuram.

At the outset Dr. S.K. Zamir Ahmed, Sr. Scientist and Coordinator, informed to the participants about the institutional innovations like KVK, ORC and model satellite nurseries of fish for imparting technical knowledge for inclusive growth.

Dr. Nagesh Ram, Programme Coordinator KVK spoke on the role of KVK in catering to the needs of the farmers for socio-economic development. He urged the farmers to form Joint Liability Groups (JLG) for undertaking income generating activities which is supported by NABARD. Further he detailed about the forth coming training and demonstration programmes i.e., on Pulses and Maize which will be conducted by the team of experts of KVK, CARI in association with the ORC.

Dr. Sailesh Kumar AFDO, Diglipur expressed his happiness on the collaborative efforts for making Model Satellite nurseries to address to the demand of the fish seeds of fresh water for the farmers. He also urged the farmer that there is big scope for Income generation through fish breeding programme. He requested the farmers to form individual groups of fish seed producer of different species namely Catla, Rohu and Mirgal so that assured fish seed is available when needed. It was felt that training on fish seed rearing, control of harmful insects and awareness programme to sensitize the stakeholders on indiscriminate fishing should be conducted. 

Dr. Kiruba Sankar, Scientist, Fisheries Science Division, CARI, assured for full support from the division for sustainable production of fish seed through Model Satellite nurseries. He also informed that this year, through this programme seeds has been produced in different cluster of villages located in South, North and Middle Andaman. 

Shri. Manindra Mistry, farmer of D.B. Gram, Shri. Sajiv Kumar of Keralapuram and Shri Bhaskar of Madhupur shared their experiences during the interaction. Under the plan and guidance of Dr. S. Dam Roy, Director CARI, was appreciated by the farmers. The team also visited Satellite nursery of fish at V.S. Pally, Seed production of rice at Subashgram, Keralapuram and other interventions undertaken in the field.  

Altogether 53 farmers representing different village clusters participated in the meet which was coordinated by Dr. S. K. Zamir Ahmed of CARI.