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- ICAR- Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology, Ludhiana (CIPHET)
- ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal (NDRI)
- ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai (CIFE)
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Aim/Agenda
About us:
Recognizing the role of inland fisheries, Central Government on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries recommended to establish Central Inland Fisheries Research Station on 17th March 1974 in Calcutta under the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Government of India. The station was elevated to the status of an Institute (CIFRI) in 1959 and moved to its own building at Barrackpore (West Bengal). Over the years, the organization has grown and established itself as a premier research institution in the field of the inland fisheries and aquatic ecology in the country. Since 1967, the Institute came under the administrative control of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Department of Agriculture Research and Education, Ministry of Agriculture (currently Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare), Government of India, Delhi.
During the seventies, the institute focused its attention on aquaculture research in consonance with the plan priorities of Government of India and established the Freshwater Aquaculture Research and Training Centre (FARTC) at Dhauli, Orissa in 1977, which eventually became the Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) in 1987. Simultaneously, the Central Institute of Brackish-water Aquaculture (CIBA) and National Research Centre on Cold Water Fisheries (NRCCWF) were carved out from this Institute to provide added research thrust on brackish-water aquaculture and cold-water fisheries, respectively. The name of the Institute was changed to Central Inland Capture Fisheries Research Institute (CICFRI) in 1987, West Bengal and its mandate reoriented. The ICAR, however, restored its original name “Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute” (CIFRI) in 2002.
Headquarters of the Institute is located at Barrackpore, West Bengal; the Regional Research Centers are located at Allahabad, Guwahati, Bangalore and Vadodara, with Research Centers at Kochi and Kolkata. The Institute is ISO 9001: 2008 certified and provide world-class service standards.
The Institute has been conferred upon the Sardar Patel Outstanding ICAR Institution Award 2020 under Large Institute category by ICAR.
What we do:
Initially the main objective of this Institute was to conduct investigations for a proper appraisal of all inland fishery resources of the country and to evolve suitable methods for their optimum fish production. While fulfilling the above objective, the institute directed its research efforts towards understanding the ecology and production functions of different types of inland waterbodies in the country.
In 1971 four All India Coordinated Research Projects, viz., “Composite Fish Culture”, “Riverine Fish Seed Prospecting”, “Air-breathing Fish Culture” and “Ecology and Fisheries Management of Reservoirs” were started by the institute. Another AICRP on “Brackishwater Fish Farming” was initiated in 1973. The first two projects were combined together as Composite Fish Culture and Fish Seed Production” in 1974. These AICRPs were turning points in the history of inland fisheries and aquaculture in India. The resounding success of these projects has given a firm support for the development of freshwater aquaculture in the country.
Over the years the institute has grown to a premier research organization in inland fisheries in the country. During the pre-seventh plan period, the Institute identified the potential zones in major rivers where riverine major carp seed can be collected and supplied to aquaculture farms. The development of induced breeding technology for Indian and Chinese major carps, during the seventies coupled with the bundh breeding of Chinese carps, nursery management techniques and composite fish culture technology gave a fillip to freshwater aquaculture development in India. Development of seed production and culture technologies for air-breathing fishes, methods of aquatic weed control and integrated fish farming systems gave additional support to the growth of freshwater aquaculture.
Keeping in view the emerging issues like sustainability in open water fisheries and aquatic resource management, the Institute strives for knowledge-based management of inland open waters for sustainable fisheries, conservation of aquatic biodiversity, integrity of ecological services and to derive social benefits from these waters. The Institute has put efforts in developing sensor-based technology to detect pollutants like heavy metals, pesticides, etc. in inland aquatic systems. The institute is now in the forefront of technology development and Intellectual Property Rights management. The institute has commercialized seven technologies, filed 8 patents, registered four designs and seven trademarks. In compliance with Namami Gange Programme, a flagship programme of the Government of India to restore the depleting population of endemic and endangered biodiversity of the river Ganga, ICAR-CIFRI is consistently involved in rejuvenation of the fisheries of river through ranching of indigenous fish species. To enhance/restore Hilsa population wild hilsa seeds/juveniles have been ranched.
Objectives of the sub-project:
- To design and develop sensors / biosensors for estimation of dissolved oxygen and ammonia in inland open waters and culture-based fisheries
- To develop sensor based fish diseases detection in enclosure culture and culture-based fisheries
- To design and develop of a sensor based automated feed dispensing system in enclosure culture
- To estimate post-harvest fish quality and adulteration using near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy