Swapan Kumar Biswas, a resident of Mahdebpur village in Jhenidah's Kaliganj upazila, has been success in prawn farming. He is a field assistant of the upazila fisheries office by profession. Swapan ...

Freshwater prawn widely known as golda chingri is being cultivated successfully in Naogaon. For the first time, Raju Sardar ...

03 September 2014 Muscat - In a new experiment, the Aquaculture Centre under the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MoAF) has started farming giant freshwater prawns (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) in ...

The government of Kerala had launched Janakeeya Matsya Krishi Scheme under which Brackish Water Fish Farmers Development Agency (BWFFDA) was appointed to impart 10 days’ training for prawn farming.

Noel Herbst is being hailed for his tenacious spirit and significant influence on the agriculture sector following his death on Friday, three weeks after his 80th birthday. He had suffered a long ...

“Hey, it bit me!” cried Joe Thompson, grinning as he looked at the thing in his hands. The thing looked more or less like a shrimp … a shrimp from outer space. It was about 6 inches long, with spiny ...

Nearly 500 hatcheries in Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat have had to drain 50 lakh to one crore seeds in the past 10 days India produces seven lakh tonnes of prawn a year, 42 ...

Bhubaneswar, Feb. 25: Heavy silting and unchecked prawn farming are posing a serious threat to the Chilika lagoon, the largest brackish water lake of Asia straddling three districts of the state.

Religious leaders, human rights activists, environmentalists and villagers are mobilizing to halt the renewal of prawn farming and ilmenite mining in the Kathiraweli and Vakarai areas of the ...

Nagpur: Saltwater and freshwater prawn farming could usher in economic prosperity for farmers in east and west Vidarbha, said Union minister of road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari on Saturday.

The government this week decided to stop issuing permits for prawn farms in Puttalam due to poor farming practices, while pledging to provide support for the setting up of farms across other parts of ...