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Mandya Deputy Commissioner Kumar has directed officials to instrumentality indispensable steps to beforehand fisheries successful areas of the territory wherever ponds person a year-round h2o supply
Presiding implicit a district-level gathering to show the implementation of the Central Government-sponsored Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY) for the 2025-26 fiscal twelvemonth connected January 19, Mr. Kumar stated that determination were a full of 177 tanks and ponds nether the Fisheries Department successful the district.
Fish farming
As food farming depends connected a accordant h2o proviso year-round, fisheries should beryllium promoted connected a precedence ground successful areas of the territory wherever h2o is disposable passim the full year, helium said.
He besides emphasised the request to make food varieties that are successful request successful the district.
Mandya district, connected average, produces implicit 30,000 tonnes of food annually and ranks among the apical 10 successful the authorities for fisheries extracurricular coastal areas.
Speaking astir the fiscal assistance made disposable for food farming, Mr. Kumar said the Fisheries Department provides a subsidy of up to ₹7 lakh for undertaking food farming successful an country of 1 hectare. While beneficiaries belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes are eligible for a subsidy of 60%, those from the wide class are eligible for a subsidy of 40%, helium said.
He directed officials to compile occurrence stories of individuals who person utilised the services of the Fisheries Department and achieved occurrence successful the field. He besides asked that they corroborate whether the eligible beneficiaries who antecedently received assistance nether the PMMSY person go financially self-reliant.
He pointed retired that the fisherfolk, who were provided with vehicles by the Government to merchantability fish, were earning well.
Proper training
In summation to providing indebtedness assistance to beneficiaries for entering the fisheries sector, helium instructed officials to guarantee they person due grooming successful this field. Fisheries play a relation arsenic important arsenic agriculture successful boosting farmers’ incomes, helium said, and added that due grooming was truthful necessary
Fisherfolk arsenic good arsenic farmers should go “financially self-reliant”, helium said.
Between 2021 and 2025, the PMMSY benefited a full of 742 individuals successful Mandya district.
Deputy Director of the Fisheries Department Babasab and officials Lokesh, Poojashree, Pushpalatha, Jagadeesh T.D., Mahadevaswamy and Dr. Kamalabai Kudagi, elder idiosyncratic and caput of Krishi Vigyan Kendra astatine V.C. Farm, were besides present.
