A five-day training programme on fish farming was conducted at the College of Fisheries, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU). Farmers, unemployed youth as well as entrepreneurs belonging to non-farming community from Ludhiana, Mansa, Jalandhar, Bathinda and Ferozepur attended the programme. Technological inputs for scientific farming of different species such as carps, catfish, prawns/shrimps, ornamental fish and Azolla was provided to the trainees. Lectures on role of media in marketing, on-going promotional schemes of the government for financial assistance to fish farmers and extension/utility services provided by GADVASU, were also delivered. Fish farming was a lucrative enterprise for diversification for farming community. It helped achieve higher earnings per unit land holding and required less labour as compared to agriculture and livestock farming systems, experts said.
The Tribune Trust,2015