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Chennai-based ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (ICAR-CIBA), Chennai, has successfully reared and harvested Blue Swimmer Crab (Portunus reticulatus) for the archetypal clip successful the country. It was achieved utilizing institute-produced hatchery effect and a scientifically formulated pellet provender developed by ICAR-CIBA.
Kuldeep Kumar Lal, Director, ICAR-CIBA, said the institute had successfully standardised a broad exertion bundle for Blue Swimmer Crab aquaculture. The bundle includes precocious hatchery effect accumulation protocols, a specialized formulated provender branded arsenic BSCrabPlus, and optimized nursery and grow-out farming practices.
The exertion offers a promising caller accidental for farmers seeking profitable alternatives and complements to existing shrimp farming systems.
“Blue Swimmer Crab tin beryllium cultured successfully wrong a comparatively abbreviated accumulation cycle, comparable to shrimp farming. With little levels of cannibalism than galore different brackishwater crab taxon and beardown home arsenic good arsenic planetary marketplace demand, this exertion presents a highly viable and sustainable enactment for aquaculture diversification,” Dr. Lal said.
In the objection trial, Blue Swimmer Crab effect was stocked astatine a density of 1 crab per quadrate metre and fed with ICAR-CIBA’s nutritionally balanced formulated feed. After a civilization play of 105 days, the harvest yielded a productivity of 1,100 kg per hectare, with marketable crabs averaging 150 grams successful assemblage weight. The harvested crabs fetched an charismatic marketplace terms of ₹500 per kilogram, highlighting the beardown commercialized imaginable of the technology.
A harvest relation was organized astatine the ICAR-CIBA Muttukadu Experimental Station connected June 22, to showcase the show of the farming system. During the event, gross amounting to ₹1,22,500 was handed implicit to the beneficiaries, Success Self-Help Group, Pudhunemmelikuppam, Chengalpattu territory who were progressive successful the objection nether the Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan (SCSP) programme.
S. Kandan, Director, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (RGCA), Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA), who attended the harvest said technologies developed by probe institutions specified arsenic ICAR-CIBA could beryllium efficaciously transferred to farmers done RGCA nether MPEDA.
